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What’s to say when talking about the most important records in your life? When I was 17, I got my brain ripped out by Infest’s “Slave” lp, and when they picked it up off the floor and stuck it back in a bunch of the wires were crossed. After that it was a long chain of events that got me to here. Siege, Deep Wound, Drop Dead, Citizen’s Arrest, Voorhees, No Comment, Crossed Out, Negative FX. It was before everything was a click away on Soulseek, and so it took about a year of borrowing, and scouring to hear most of it, but I feel like Slave was the first time really thrashy brutal hardcore left a lasting effect on me.I’ve already kind of done an entry on this album, because I did an entry on the abridged version of it - the Machismo 7″. Slave is the same recording, but with 8 additional songs and was released in Europe on Off The Disk.  It was Highly Collectible (™ B. Mastrobuono) and hard to get even when it was released, and now with the revived interest in this sort of hardcore, it’s become all the more valuable and high priced. I picked up most of my copies of this lp in the early 2000’s when interest was relatively low, although a couple years ago I paid an exorbitant amount for a pink vinyl copy of which there’s supposed to be less than 50. After that, the next rarest version is allegedly the one I’ve linked here, which is a different color on each side of the record. I’ve seen a few different variations, but this one is blue and sea foam looking. Who knows if the price will ever drop on this stuff again? Might as well pay up now, you couldn’t do it for a better album. Even the repress with alternate cover art is fetching some loot these days after all.