Gavilan Rayna Russom - Secret Passage 2LP xx1992 the band bears the torch

the band bears the torch of its bloodsoaked predecessors and ushers in a new era of venomous death metal

but on Fried E/M's Modern World they drag it back into place as brute expression of ugly feelings crammed into short catchy punk bursts

and are no less gutted in their approach

I was always the one who thought they wouldn't be a sucker for "new partner

But that isn't quite it

Gavilan Rayna Russom - Secret Passage 2LP xx1992 the band bears the torchIn Rayna's words "I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island in the 1970s and 80s. The booming jewelry and textile industries of the previous decades had pulled out by that point. The Italian mob ran most details of the day to day operations of the city. As kids coming up in that environment, before the internet, me and the people I hung out with didnt know anything else and we worked with what we had to entertain ourselves. We found places that had been