Artist: Mace 
Title: Process Of Elimination
Label: Awakening Records
Cat #: AWA032
Release Year: 1985/2021
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case (not sealed)

American thrash metal crossover gem from 1985 is now officially reissued for the first time on CD! 

Limited to 1000 copies!

Mace’s ‘Process Of Elimination’ (P.O.E.) falls between conventional metal and anarchist punk valleys, based in nasty chords rather than melodies. Call it ‘Metallic Punk’, ‘Punky Metal’, or whatever, but Mace’s proposal was very different from that of their contemporaries.

The band relies on heavy-like-a-bulldozer guitars, driven by solid drumming. Vocals delivery strikes like a flurry, but in such songs as ‘Act of War’ and ‘S.U.B.C.’, vocalist Kirk Verhey incorporates passive aggression that adds a certain something that furthers the cause, especially in the chorus lines. Mace’s musical statement was fuel-powered and driven to tear some walls down with their heavy artillery.

Songs in P.O.E. could be described as rounds of blasting riffs and furious leads as the production allows the rage to come through from every anthem of war-dealing tales heard here. P.O.E. is worth listening to if you are into metal records from the days of yore.

Recommended if you like: D.R.I., Nuclear Assualt, Stormtroopers of Death. M.O.D., Cryptic Slaughter, Cro-Mags, Municipal Waste

Track Listing:
1. S.U.B.C.    
2. Smoking Gun    
3. The Introduction    
4. Violent World    
5. Drilling For Brains    
6. Marine Corpse    
7. Act Of War    
8. Room 101    
9. M.A.C.E.