The Showdown High Voltage Thrash Collectors Edition

Girder to release Collector Editions of The Showdown - Backbreaker and Blood In The Gears

I hear it over and over and over, "Music today just doesn't sound as good as it used to. It all sounds the same."

Honestly, those comments sounded like my dad when he used to scream at me to turn that racket down.  Every time I heard that comment from someone at a festival, I thought to myself, wow, that dude has never heard The Showdown or experienced their bludgeoning thrash onslaught that David and his bandmates would impale on an unsuspecting crowd.  To watch fans react to Dave screaming GET SNAKE BIT and blow the crowd away with song after song of metal, thrash, and even southern rock. Fans were left with an experience that was second to none, most standing there in awe or immediately off to find the bands' merch table.  The Showdown were invited to Ozzfest in 2007 for one very good reason. These dudes knew metal, and knew what fans wanted: Inspired riffing a la Pantera and giving fans that were experiencing in those years Underoath, The Chariot, and August Burns Red something completely different and exciting...metal with killer guitar riffs.  For 80's metalheads everywhere, it was so refreshing, specifically in the Christian metal scene. 

The Showdown exploded on the scene unapologetically with A Chorus of Obliteration on the Mono vs. Stereo record label, and then immediately changed the tempo to more of a classic metal sound with the album called Temptation Come My Way, which is still hailed as one of the greatest classic metal albums to come out of the 2000s. But when Backbreaker dropped on Solid State Records, all bets were off and the band found their rightful place among metal and thrash metal heavyweights. It's no wonder why these guys shared the stage with bands like Killswitch Engage.  To put it in simple terms, other than the classic albums from Resurrection Band (Awaiting Your Reply and Rainbow’s End) both Backbreaker and its follow up Blood in the Gears are my absolute favorite albums of all-time. Backbreaker is loaded with guitar riffs, anthem-like metal, and even some good old southern influences formed out of the swamps of the south. Whatever you do, do not leave this earth without experiencing these two albums. If you like your metal loud and you believe that heavy metal will never die, these two albums will give you all the ammunition you need to scream at the top of your lungs that heavy metal ruled supreme in 2008-2010. 

I honestly can tell you that you will put these CDs in your stereo, and they won't leave for quite some time. While most albums age overtime, these are the exception to the rule.  These albums only get better with age.  

It's a real honor to be able to release these officially licensed and band supported albums on Solid State with the Girder Treatment, and although they are not remastered (because they are perfect as is) you are getting 3 bonus tracks on the Blood in the Gears Deluxe Edition, and both come with cool O-ring collector sleeve with LTD collector cards.  Backbreaker comes with a 12-panel fold out insert/poster, because it included one of the greatest album covers the Christian metal scene has ever witnessed.  I mean, what's more metal than a ripped dude standing there with arrows impaling him, completely unaffected.

Don’t hesitate for a minute to purchase these heavier than thou metal classics, and get ready to bang your head to the sound of high voltage thrash that is the essence of this amazing band The Showdown!

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE