Spike in Vain - Death Drives a Cadillac PRIDE GAME First and foremost

First and foremost

The record marked a change of musical direction

Batz and the touring musicians he assembled would don their own rabbit masks whenever performing

alongside longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder and offered the first glimpse of music from the newly reformed lineup

who co-wrote the words with Maia

Spike in Vain - Death Drives a Cadillac PRIDE GAME First and foremostDeath Drives A Cadillac was Spike in Vain's second album, never officially released and unheard in it's final form until now. Like many hardcore bands circa '84 and '85, the group was ready to further expand it's palette and ease off the thrash tempos. Recorded roughly a year after Disease Is Relative with a bigger budget, the album is even more wide ranging, and the songs are more fleshed out. "Despair grew inside her, I grew inside her. She named me