Love Is Not Enough

Back at God City with Kurt Ballou, no guests, no studio tricks, four people playing like the building might come down if they hesitate. The title track explodes out of the gate, thrash riffs snapping together before swerving into powerviolence, Bannon's voice already torn to shreds. Distract and Divide packs an insane amount of rage into barely two minutes. Beyond Repair drops the vocals entirely for droning guitars and rising feedback, and the quiet hits as hard as the loud. The track order wears you out on purpose, no safe entry point, each song cranking the pressure. 35 years in and the album stops because there's nowhere left to go, not because anything got fixed.