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I must admit, as an industrial music fan, I was certainly not prepared for this album. It was the first Pigface album I was able to find, and I was blown away. This was the first time I heard the song "Suck" and this is likely one of the best songs you have never heard. Martin Atkins is a good guy; he makes good rhythms, and when I wrote to him in high school when I wrote an Advanced English paper on them, he wrote me back, complete with a coffee cup stain on the letter. "Blood and Sand" rules, and still speaks to us now, since we are killing off people in the Middle East again for no logical reason. I find that Pigface helps me to reach a place that no other group is capable of doing; a strange, rhythmic bliss. Crack open a Newcastle Brown Ale, and turn up the stereo. Pigface will take care of cracking open your head.

This is old Pigface, when they recruited some of industrial music's heaviest hitters. Amongst those were Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy, Bill Rieflin and Chris Connelly of Ministry/Revolting Cocks, William Tucker of Thrill Kill Kult, Michael Balch (formerly of Front Line Assembly), En Esch of KMFDM, and Nine Inch Nails contributors Chris Vrenna and Jeff Ward, as well as Trent Reznor himself. They've even got Becky from Lunachicks and Black Francis (the guy from Pixies?). The songs range from decent to excellent, with one of Pigface's better-known songs, "Tapeworm", on it. Also of note are two songs that also appeared on albums by Pigface contributors: "Suck", which was one of the hidden tracks on Nine Inch Nails' "Broken" and "T.F.W.O.", which is on Skinny Puppy's "Too Dark Park". Although I'm not a big fan of live albums, this one has its shining moments.