Suicidal Tendencies

No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family (Suicidal Records)

Mike Muir’s Venice Beach bum crew repurposes its back catalog by re-recording swaths of 1987’s Join the Army and Suicidal offshoot No Mercy’s sole LP, Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red. “Suicidal Maniac” speed thrash (“I Feel Your Pain … and I Survive”), plus pit anthem “Join the St. Army” and mad misanthrope “Born To Be Cyco” meet No Mercy’s Slayer lite, Muir speed-reading through tempos ripping (“Come Alive”) and breakneck (“We’re F’N Evil”). Title track = hot foot. (Sunday, 7:50pm, Black stage)

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This article appears in November 5 • 2010.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.