the Brutal Truth about Brutal Truth…

In 1991 or 92 I saw Nuclear Assault at a place called Derringers in Brockton, MA. 1 of my best friends, his sister, 1 of her friends and I all piled in to another friends 87 Ford station wagon and headed to the rock show. We always got to shows really early and this was no exception as we were the only ones in the club that were not playing the show.

I was standing with one of the girls when what I thought was some sort of alien or sasquach came lumbering out from the side of the stage. Wait! I thought to myself, thats no monster, thats Dan Lilker!

As he slowly wandered around the club the girl I was talking to caught his attention. I wish I had a picture of the 2 of them together because she was about 5′ 2″ and 14 years old and he was probably 6′ 5″ and almost 30 years old.

Anyway, our friendly conversation was cut short when I said “I got your new record and its really good”. I was talking about a the Brutal Truth ‘Birth of Ignorance’ 7″ I bought in Providence a few weeks prior. His expression immediatly changed and I could tell that I had upset the monster. He said “Brutal Truth? On vinyl?”, I nervously nodded my head as to say yes. I swear that in the moment he grew 10 feet taller, his face darkened becoming more skull like and his eyes started glowing red with fire as he proceded to tell me off for buying a bootleg before storming off.

I’ve never seen this version of this record before. I know it came out as a single CD, but aparently Earache decided to do something wacky and put it out as a 5 record box set that includes 5″, 6″, 7″, 8″ & 9″ records. Researching this post I read that it also came in a colored vinyl version, but I dont know that for sure. Either way, this is one of the coolest releases I’ve ever seen!