Could it possibly be that The Misfits' (well, the "real" Misfits, with Glenn Danzig at the helm) greatest album was that which said frontman favored least? Why, ab-so-lutely! (Well, at least for this reviewer, who's hard-pressed to find others of like mind, having even seen it been called "shit." Perhaps not coincidentally, shortly after 'Earth A.D.'s late-'83 release, Glenn disbanded The Misfits...)

Yeah, 'Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood' (which featured the line-up of Danzig, bassist Jerry Only, guitarist/speed demon Doyle, and one-time Black Flag drummer Robo pounding out utterly maniacal beats) marked a noted departure from the band's more Ramones-y-melodic-catchy-kinda-poppy-punk for which they will forever be remembered, in the quest for, what Jerry Only describes as a Motorhead-meets-Misfits style. The resultant sound on this nine-track, about 15-minute-long album is a whirlwind barrage of noise that's impossibly fast, blazing and heavy, aggressive thrash, almost primitive in its brutality and murky, shoddy production.

One thing not straying from the norm is the B-horror movie imagery-saturated lyrics found on the album, what with songs like the vicious "Demonomania", "Queen Wasp" ("Human-looking from the thorax up/Human stomach and a tiny waist/My God we're living the life of/My God we're wasting what I hold"), and "Bloodfeast" (When you think of severed heads think of my face/Think that you're alive/Well, I guess I fooled you"), to name a few...

Truly, though, this album is memorable for its unabashed thrash. It's relentless for seven straight tracks, up until the penultimate offering, "Bloodfeast", which ushers in ﾖ albeit briefly ﾖ a moment of clarity, as the tempo diminishes for this lone slower song, which perhaps because of it's differing sound/tempo is one of the best. In any case, with "Hellhound", the finale, the blazing speed that encompasses a vast majority of 'Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood' is back, and all is right with the world.