Entry the 22nd: Raid - Hands Off The Animals

Another 16th birthday present to myself, this one I saw in the Victory catalog, I believe touted as an inspiration to Earth Crisis. More militant vegan straightedge hardcore was pretty appealing to me at the time. Sadly this may have influenced Earth Crisis, but it's not nearly as good. The first five songs were alright, but the rest of the tracks were older material and they sounded pretty bad. That coupled with buying this on the same day I did the Hatebreed album from the previous post meant that this fell a bit by the wayside.

Thirteen years later it has not aged well. That is not to say that it that I hate it, but it has not grown on me at all. The vocals are pretty terrible and the songs are boring, but those were the problems with it in the first place, so I guess it has not really gotten any worse.
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