Rising from the ashes of Speedealer (aka REO Speedealer) comes Mitra. Featuring the addition of former Billyclub frontman Kurt Grayson. Rock And Roll was never supposed to be polite, polished, watered down or delivered without destructive primal urge. This is not only a fact that all four members of Mitra understand to the fullest, it's also the driving force behind why the Dallas-based foursome exist in the first place. One writer has already said that the band are "about as subtle as a spiked bat to the ballsack", and now with the release of ‘All Gods Kill' Mitra's swing is set to strike. Produced by D. Braxton Henry (Drowning Pool, Jacknife, Dryline), ‘All Gods Kill' revels in Southern swagger and whiskey-soaked sting. As feverish as a long Summer night in the Lone Star State the thirteen-song disc seethes with a greasy, gritty menace. From the brassknuckle shuffle of opening track "Dead 2 Rights" straight through to the pummeling anthems like "Things R About 2 Get Ugly", "Warhorse", "Will Kill 4 Free" and "Grudge" command anyone within earshot to raise a fist and scream along. Even song titles like "Violence Is Golden" and "Let ‘Em Bleed" alone tell you Mitra mean business. Grayson drives that point home even further often turning his husky bellows into blood-boiling binges of rage before the band slams the breaks on the bludgeon. Seldom does the Ehr/Harrison rhythm section provide anything but a piston-firing foundation and whether he's ripping out muscle