Roadrunner "Breed The Killers" - Earth Crisis

Completely overlooked album in the history of metalcore. This is where ExC takes the turn from Vegan straight-edge tech-metal warriors to a great metal band. Truth be told, this one DECIMATES the "Slither" record that Victory released when the band went back post their one-album stand with RR. Being the first ExC record not on Victory and shifting into sligtly more rock arrangements, the hsrd-moshin' vegamites were slightly taken aback. It wasn't "Firestorm", that's for sure. Still, tracks like "Whither", "End Begins" or "Ultramilitance" (death to the bunny-testers!) are classics straight down to the sheer ugliness of of Karl Buechner's from-the-bowels-up-through-the-bloody-windpipe glottal roar.
Fun fact: when Hatebreed recorded their classic first LP: "Satisfaction is the Death of Desire", they did their best to crib the massive guitar tone that producer/mixer Andy Sneap got on this.
While "Breed The Killers" has slipped out of print over the past year or so, iScream Records re-issued the album in Nov 2008.
Like it or not, Earth Crisis has reemerged once again to stand against the mindless followers of the Emperor Palpatine of meat consumption and American mindlessness: Ray Croc (founder of McDonald's)! Well, you get the idea.
Got a feeling "Breed The Killers" is finally going to get its due.