Acid Drinkers-Dirty Money, Dirty Tricks

Metal Mind
1991/2009



Poland's Acid Drinkers were back for their sophomore effort in 1991. Now I wouldn't go as far to say that they had mellowed since their debut, but they were overall less chaotic this time around. The Dead Kennedy's influence is perhaps even greater this time around. These guys were still rooted in thrash as well, say similar to Anthrax. However none of that quite does justice to the gung-ho direction of Acid Drinkers. They take metal, punk, hard rock and stir it all up in the pot and then pull just various elements from their arsenal as they see fit. Having that kind of take on their music allows for it to be both surprising and exciting. At a time when many metal bands were becoming all too predictable, these guys seem to have more than their share of ideas and they were not afraid to use them. They also benefit from not caring much about labels or sticking to one style. They pretty much just did what they wanted to. Obviously they had more varied influences than some of their peers, but these guys knew how to pull it off as well. Pulling off this style isn't something that everyone could do. This kind of insanity has to have a flow to it to really work, but apparently this band had the kind of skill and personality to make it look easy. This disc didn't have quite the spontaneous feel of the debut. It's close, but the debut just had more pace and style changes. Still this is another fine chapter in their career of this long running band. The re-issue includes a lyric booklet and a live version of "Street Rockin" from 1996 as a bonus track.