Nothing but nothing makes me feel like more of a man than an overdriven guitar blazing the earth’s surface with a hell-bent fury that would singe even Satan’s nose-hairs and thus [sic] Blackfire Revelation’s Gold and Guns on 51 hath done this for me like few other records have this year. Raw, loud, angry, raw - and let’s not forget loud, this little EP o’ overdrive doesn’t last very long but like a short-lived summer fling, you can’t help but revisit it time and time again, turning it over and over like a burnt piece of skin on the roof of your mouth. The real revelation here? John Fields’ Henry Rollins-on-a-downs-binge in the amazing “Preach To The Choir,” just one of the five highlight tunes on this five-track disc, if you know what I mean. – Jedd Beaudoin