4-K Death To Traitors Review in Kerrang! (Album of the Week)

What: 4-K (four stars) grade for Death To Traitors from Kerrang! magazine.

When: Aug. 26, 1995

Highlights:

• Kerrang! describes Paw as “hicksville slackers with one eye on Urge Overkill and another on the barmaid.”

• Dragline is recapped as “a grand postcard from Little America … kind of John Mellencamp and Daisy from ‘Dukes of Hazard.’”

• Death To Traitors represents an older and wiser Paw: “They’ve been to Europe and drunk our beer. They’ve supported Tool and Rage Against the Machine and drunk their beer, too.”

• “Essentially, this is guitarist Grant Fitch’s record. Just as Billy Duffy was The Cult’s ‘Sonic Temple,’ so ‘Death To Traitors’ relies on Grant’s confidently understated sense of drama. … When Grant flexes his muscles, the results are frequently immense.”