The first impression was wrong. The new DRILLER KILLER recording unfortunately isn’t the expected hammer album, far from it! Compared to the forerunner Cold, Cheap & Disconnected the new album seems to be quite weak. Singer Cliff and his partly new line-up seem to have found it more necessary to create enormously original song-titles, for example Thefuckhumangrenade, Dakapokalypse, Nightmarathon or 3one6one4 than to write really aggressive DRILLER KILLER crust material. Most of the new songs lack of drive and the compositions pass by really unimpressive. There are no more surprises, because the band is walking on overloaded crustcore paths. Everyone who dealt a bit with the other DRILLER KILLER albums could easily foretell the next cue of the vocals or the leadguitar.
Of course it’s beyond all question, that DRILLER KILLER still are better then 95 per cent of all the other stylish related bands, but if you are used only first-class albums from a certain combo, something like The 4Q Mangrenade (should that stand for “The Fuck You Mangrenade?) is really a disappointment.