The American band was one of the first extreme metal bands that ever laid their foot in Greece back in 1989. This was an act that enjoyed more the mid-tempo (not hardcore) instead of hyperfast parts and differed from the Maiden / Priest clones their homeland produced non-stop in the 80s.

“The American Way” was released in 1990 and established Sacred Reich as one of the top thrash acts of their time, even if it was one step beyond the astonishing “Ignorance” debut. The Dutch label Displeased got the rights and reissued this with: remastered sound, 6 bonus demo versions of the album’s tracks (with no big differences besides the sound according to Phil Rind) and the video for the title track. Naturally, you’ve got the lyrics and frontman Rind’s notesfrom 1990 but 2009 as well.

Don’t expect the high-improved album sound since it was done perfectly either way. If you had the album in vinyl this is a good chance for it to relax! If you didn’t have this in any format you must go and get the second best album of a very important band during the decade change 20 years ago; a historic and lasting from artistic point of view record.