A Complete Reissue Of The Long Out-Of-Print Masterpiece

A Complete Reissue Of The Long Out-Of-Print Masterpiece, And 4Th Release By '70's L.A. Punk Icons, The Flesh Eaters!

Atavistic's Hard Road To Follow Reissue Also Includes 5 Bonus Tracks & Deluxe Artwork In An Oversize Lyric Booklet..

Excerpted From Byron Coley's Liner Notes:

'Although It Was Not The Last Album To Be Issued Under The Name Of The Flesh Eaters, Hard Road To Follow Occupies A Unique And Special Place In The Band's Pantheon. Released In 1983, By Chris D's Own Upsetter Label, It Was The Fourth Annual And Final Installment In The Original Sequence Of Flesh Eaters' Albums. Hard Road Was Also The First To Have The Same Line-Up As Its Predecessor, Forever Came Today. The Band's Fourth Corrosive Masterpiece In As Many Years, Hard Road Is The Best Evidence Of A Band That Had Achieved A Still Unequaled Massiveness Of Sound. For My Money, This Particular Version Of The Flesh Eaters Represents The Greatest Rock Band Ever. They Were It. Their Live Shows (Of Which I Missed Only Two Or Three) Were Uniformly Mind-Melting, And While The Records They Left Cannot Convey Everything That The Flesh Eaters Were, They Remain Amongst The Best Albums Ever.

The Material On Hard Road Is Some Of The Best That Chris Ever Wrote. Several Of The Songs Had Been Percolating For A While, And These Really Got Hammered Into Shape During The U.S. Tour The Quartet Did In The Summer Of '82. It's Nothing But Goddamn Great That This Album Is Available Once Again. The Basic Tracks Are Fantastic, And The Bonus Ones Really Fill Out The Story In A Buxom Way. Even Though The Live Take Of 'Divine Horseman' (Originally Released As One-Half Of A Giveway 7' 45 For Forced Exposure Subscribers In Early Nineties ' Flipside Was A Demo Version Of Divine Horsemen's 'Mother's Worry') Is A Little Rough Sonically, It Conveys A Hint Of How Powerful, How Undeniably Majestic This Band Was.

Additional Details

Label: Atavistic

Genre: Alternative/Punk

Language: English

Release Date: 03/11/16

UPC: 735286114423