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Like Iron Maiden G.B.H. is credited for helping create thrash metal. The influential, long-lived punk metal band rose to prominence in England during the early ’80s when hardcore punk inched toward heavy metal. Formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England, G.B.H. took their name from the criminal offence. In August 1981 they released their hard-hitting debut EP, Leather, Bristles, Studs & Acne on Clay Records. In ’82 they released their debut album, City Baby Attacked by Rats. Two years later their second album City Baby’s Revenge was released in ’84. They continued recording and releasing albums
through the ’80s, G.B.H. soldiered on, recording new albums throughout the ’90s and into the next millennium. By this point the band was often cited by both metal and punk bands as a huge influence, and a renewed interest in G.B.H.’s early recordings resulted.

Race Against Time is a 3 CD collection of the entire G.B.H Clay recordings, 2 studio albums, 1 EP and all the singles releases from the period. Also included is the live, No Survivors album, originally released years after the band left the Clay label. It is now available again as disc three of the box set. The booklet is filled with photos, memorabilia and detailed liner notes. The set is packaged in a 5×5 mini collector’s style set. The 3 CD set is a fine intro to one of the ’80s more underrated punk bands. Many a mosh pit has been started over the years to the punk anthems “Time Bomb,” and “War Dogs”.

Track Listing

Disc One: Leather Bristles Studs & Acne
1. Race Against Time

2. Knife Edge

3. Lycanthropy

4. Necrophilia

5. State Executioner

6. Dead On Arrival

7. Generals

8. Freak

9. Alcohol

10. No Survivors (Single)

11. Self Destruct

12. Big Women

13. Sick Boy (Single)

14. Slit Your Own Throat

15. Am I Dead Yet

City Baby Attacked By Rats

16. Time Bomb

17. Sick Boy (Album Version)

18. War Dogs

19. Slut

20. Maniac

21. Gunned Down

22. I Am The Hunted

23. City Baby Attacked By Rats

24. The Prayer Of A Realist

25. Passenger On The Menu

26. Heavy Discipline

27. Boston Babies

28. Bellend Bop

Disc Two:

1. Give Me Fire (Single)

2. Mantrap

3. Catch 23 (Single)

4. Hellhole

City Baby s Revenge

5. Diplomatic Immunity

6. Drugs Party In 526

7. See The Man Run

8. Vietnamese Baby

9. Womb With A View

10. The Forbidden Zone

11. Valley Of Death

12. City Baby s Revenge

13. Pins And Needles

14. Christianised Cannibals

15. Faster Faster

16. High Octane Fuel

17. I Feel Alright

18. Skanga (Herby Weed)

19. Do What You Do (Single)

20. Four Men

21. Children Of Dust

22. Do What You Do (Concrete Mix)

Disc Three:No Survivors (Live)

1. Sick Boy

2. Maniac

3. Mantrap

4. Time Bomb

5. Necrophilia

6. Hellhole

7. I Am The Hunted

8. Generals

9. Catch 23

10. Give Me Fire

11. City Baby Attacked By Rats

12. No Survivors

13. Alcohol

14. Bellend Bop