Deathtoll Lost Session ’06 LP
An interesting double-barrel blast from the past from an all-star group of West Coast crossover legends. DEATHTOLL was a Bay Area hardcore outfit birthed from the lineage of ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT and had a couple releases in the early ’00s. These eight tracks have been collecting dust since 2006 and feature the aforementioned band’s comeback lineup as seen on No Way Back from 2011. I’m always curious how a record from twenty-ish years ago will hold up—stack onto that the fact that this is coming from a group who had made their mark twenty years prior to that with ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT’s undeniable classic American Paranoia. I’ll stop burying the lede and get to the point: Lost Session ‘06 is a solid record. There’s evidence of the crossover influence these folks helped pioneer, but less metallic with a touch of crust that was prevalent at the time. It’s sick that these songs have resurfaced. A well-crafted batch of tunes that should provide ample fuel for bandana thrash aficionados to grab their decks and shred to.