16 Valve Hate

Artist	Slapshot
Label Name	Taang
Song List	1: Watch Me Bleed (2:16) 2: How Much Can I Take (2:26) 3: Secrets (2:03) 4: Do What You Want (1:39) 5: 16 Valve Hate (3:50) 6: Teach Me to Kill (3:29) 7: Johnny Was (2:56) 8: The Truth Hurts (2:08) 9: Desensitized (2:24) 10: 108 (2:14) 11: I Want You Dead (1:42) 12: Big Mouth Strikes Again (3:03) 13: L.O.S.E.R. (2:34) 14: If You Had (2:07) 15: I Knew I'd Lose (2:36)
Format	CD
Release Date	1996 04 02
Genre	Rock
Style.Categories	Straight-Edge, Heavy Metal

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Slapshot not only were easily the longest-lasting of all the original Boston hardcore bands, but they managed to stay musically relevant much longer than, say, Gang Green. Released in 1996, 16 Valve Hate is a fully aggro blast of old-school hardcore, so defiantly true to the style's roots that it sounds timeless instead of retro. Original drummer Mark McKay even returns to the lineup to complete the circa-1984 picture. Songs like the barking "I Want You Dead" are standard-issue Slapshot, complete with Jack Kelly's familiar hoarse but surprisingly expressive vocals, but the standouts are the heartfelt and unexpectedly catchy title track and, somewhat surprisingly, a version of the Smiths' "Bigmouth Strikes Again" that's not at all the usual hardcore mockery of some poncy British art-school band, but a complete transformation of Morrissey's original song into a brutal but shockingly apt hardcore beatdown. Seriously, who knew that a line like "Now I know how Joan of Arc felt" would sound so right in a hardcore context? That sort of thing is what made Slapshot more than just another hardcore band. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide