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RAZOR
1988 - Violent Restitution.
1990 - Shotgun Justice.
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March 30, 1988 - 2023: 35 years of: Violent Restitution.

The saw is family !

In this sixth installment of hate, coming back strong from 1987's lukewarm Custom Killing LP, this time, the machine is fueled with actual petrol and the blood is dripping aplenty. No more razors, this is: The Canadian Chainsaw Massacre !

A soiled canvas with body-parts, this sick intro brings us "The Marshall Arts", right into the nuclear assault of "Hypertension". The saw roars on the mosh-pit destroyer "Taste The Floor" and the speedmetal of "Violent Restitution" ...you ain't seen nothing yet !

More skin-slicing down-picking abound on "Edge Of The Razor" and "Fed Up", while the rapid / rabid "Discipline" and the unlawful fun of "Behind Bars" is a pummeling speedmetal bush-fire.

By 1988, most bands of the scene had morphed from speedmetal to thrash with texture, yet RAZOR made sure the genre kept on killing and kept on being the fastest explosion on Earth.

Sadly the Violent Restitution LP would also signal the end of an era, the end of the Sheepdog era. But fear not evil invaders, Round Two shall ascend with 1990's Bob Reid led double-barrel headshot of Shotgun Justice CD.

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Violent Restitution = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpeHOgPKHs4&list=OLAK5uy_kWl43jRn3hWtZBSlq1ZRHegJ5PRSlFcxc
Live in Connecticut in 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGWnNVUY2yM

March 1, 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: Shotgun Justice.

The speediest of all speedmetals.

By 1990, while a high quantity of thrash bands were watered down to powerchords and prog-elements, Canada's RAZOR sent another major-league Grade-A-Fuck-You-Hey to the scene by releasing the speediest of all speedmetals.

Terrorizing the underground with 1985's Evil Invaders LP and ripping everything insight with aggression, by the end of 1988's Violent Restitution LP and tour-cycle, tensions were heating-up and the time had come for a change behind the microphone. Enter new screa-fucking-mer Bob Reid.

You will not survive this assault.

Goin' down South, straight to "Miami", a place "United By Hatred", bound by a rapid metal and brutal "Cranial Stomp" ...these Yankees do live the "American Luck". A fully blood-splattered front-bumper !

The slow build-up for "Shotgun Justice" rapidly turns into a front-row brawl, while the shiny "Brass Knuckles" deface with pride. Aggression 'n hardcore is spat on "Violent Condoned", the high-voltage of "Electric Torture" and the riff-tornado of "Parracide".

This Guelph quartet is justice and executioner in speedmetal.

Shotgun Justice CD is 40mins of pure destructing speed with strong hooks and street-level creds, courtesy of Reid's punk-flavored vokills. Meanwhile, the riff department was full-house, you couldn't shoe-horn another note in there. Step aside Hetfield, Ian and Mustaine ...Dave Carlo is here with some real speed-picking.

While thrashmetal challenged hardrock, RAZOR challenged thrashmetal head-on. Another slag of bitch-slappin' shall hit the scene with 1991's Open Hostility CD.

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Shotgun Justice = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuoL1qzbs4
American Luck = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwkULZQseaQ
Shotgun Justice = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKX22zDGyKc&list=OLAK5uy_kx-rTTLb4te5VVerp_-2apPNJVsMLOFWc
Live in Hensall in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tId4qE-H-a4