Here we have the self-titled DYS album (retitled Fire & Ice) and their earlier Wolfpack demo. When I was younger I used to skip the more metal-ish sounding stuff entirely and focus on the second half of the disc (the demo). Revisiting it all these years later though, I'm not really sure what I found so offensive about Fire & Ice. The metal/hardcore hybrid they were working at hangs together better than I remember, and when you take a good look at the timeline of things DYS were dabbling in a sub-genre that wouldn't come into vogue until years later. A record ahead of its time, really. Dave Smalley's best work, to my ears anyway, will always be his stint with Dag Nasty, but this isn't half bad either.
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