Destruct! This is the RVA Rippers' first album and boy does it hit you like a sledgehammer. Drums are high in the mix, just like their next record, but beneath the punishing d-beat and plentiful fills are thrashy riffs, a bass that somehow keeps up, and a raspy bark from vocalist Logan. It's not really worth overindexing on the influences here, but rest assured if you like Meanwhile, Bastard, Disclose, and of course, Discharge - with some ripping solos to boot - you'll be in for a good time. There's also a hidden Disclose cover at the end, from my favorite early Disclose record: Once The War Started. This is the perfect band to cover that era of Disclose.
They're at their best when they slightly slow down from the persistant d-beat, like on Side A's closer Insolent Death or Onward To Collapse. Of course there's nothing groudbreaking here, but a band like this doesn't exist to be groundbreaking - they exist to break your neck.
Logo by Sugi! My copy is a 4th pressing on purple.