Selfless and the Merciless EP deserve another mention. Serious stripped down palm-mute riffing and almost nothing else.

I saw these guys at the Garage in their later days, they had lost their gear or it didn't turn up in time or something and were playing on rented equipment (telecasters!). Broadrick was mostly just pressing buttons on a sequencer. It was pretty rubbish, all told. Loud as fuck though.

some is good, some is boring.
mostly good though.
not crap

I remember a rock critic slagging 'pure' for being "overly monolithic"

Broadrick probably took it as a compliment.

I would have.

'selfless' is my fave though. one of the very very (very) few albums I liked in high school and still listen to today...

NOT CRAP I guess is my point....