This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
They want a riot, a riot of their own.
And to their credit, New York hardcore vets Agnostic Front create the sonic equivalent of a bloody good rampage on their seventh CD. After flipping the musical bird to N.Y.C.’s mayor on opening salvo Police State, AF — who could be The Dictators’ punk-rock cousins — start kicking ass and taking names, crashing and thrashing through 17 tracks in less than 30 minutes. Along the way, they loot the rock vaults of classic metal guitar riffs, Rancid-style shoutouts, anthemic singalongs and plenty of good ol’ fashioned hardcore mayhem. Turns out Joe Strummer was wrong — not all the power is in the hands of the people rich enough to buy it.
