Who the hell expected a righteous noise like this to come from fuckin' Minnesota? Not me, man. I thought everybody already froze to death up there. Maybe all this Midnight Evil melted them at just the right time, cuz it sure is reducing my speakers to a bubbling goo. This is the most 'metal' album Estrus has ever put out. I mean, it's not really a heavy metal record, or nothin', but it's got the same sense of sledgehammer intensity and heads down fury as some meth'd-out speed metal band. Slayer rocked too, ya know, before they got fat. It's also got more AC/DC riffs racing around then Buckcherry, even. All these hammer-ons and 70's powerchords are taken on high speed test drives throughout "Straight 'til Morning", and they hit the wall more than once, leaving plenty of flying shrapnel and fiery explosions in their wake. It's an orgy of psychotic rock and roll menace, and although it's not quite as headache-making as noise mongers like Sagger or Blowchunks, it is a formidable clamor. Not for pussies, in other words. If this is the sound of evil- and it is, I checked- then good ain't got a chance. Let us smash, crash, and thrash for rock and roll, citizens, straight on 'til morning and on right through Tuesday, if we have to.