Gang Green-You got it

Metal Mind
2007 Re-issue



Boston's Gang Green had been around for awhile by 1987 and they had established themselves as a highly charged up punk rock band. However by this a number of punk rock bands were starting to add a more metal sound to their music. The metal parts are more slight here than bands like DRI and Suicidal Tendencies who embraced the metal or crossover sound more openly. Gang Green maintain much of the full throttle punch that made them such an enjoyable band to listen to. In those days when I was in high school there was a metal crowd and a punk crowd and at first it was hard for me to accept a band that was perceived as a "punk band". Largely because I started out on metal and was just so centered on those style bands, but the quick realization was that there wasn't a lot of difference between some forms like speed metal and hardcore. Both were fast, heavy guitar oriented music that pounded away with normally aggressive vocals. That's largely what you get on this album although I actually prefer their previous LP "Another wasted night" and it's probably the best album of their career. Unlike a number of their peers whose lyrics were oftentimes very serious and centered on political and social topics, Gang Green focused more on skating, beer and oftentimes tongue in cheek views of of various odd topics. Yet they pulled it off because they blazed forward without hesitation pulling the listener along with them. This is still an enjoyable album today twenty plus years after it's initial release. Metal Mind's re-issue features a booklet with a history of the band.