The Coup De Grace - Vinyl Album
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal
Red Decibel Records 1990 RDR 89182-1 / Twin Tone Records

Originally released on Twin/Tone in 1990 but reissued on Caroline's Red Decibel subsidiary in 1993 (possibly because Dave Pirner of then-hot Soul Asylum had produced the album), the self-titled debut by the Coup de Grace is a mixture of hardcore thrash and speed metal. The two styles fit together so well -- after all, Metallica and the Melvins are just two fruits from the same Blue Cheer-meets-Black Sabbath tree -- that it's at times impossible to distinguish which elements of which songs come from which antecedent.

Track Listing
Daylight Dawning
Burning With Optimism
Sad But True
Bombs Away
Me, Myself, & I
'Til The Bitter End
All of the Above
Barbed Wire
So Be It