[3] It is Rancid's most hardcore offering to date, which was released as a follow-up to the more ska and reggae oriented Life Won't Wait.

Songs on the album make reference to famous gangster Al Capone, as well as Norse God Loki, John Brown, Ulysses S. Grant, Nelson Mandela, Charles Van Doren, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Don Giovanni.

Rancid and Gurewitz would continue their collaboration for their next five albums, Indestructible, Let the Dominoes Fall, Honor Is All We Know, Trouble Maker, and Tomorrow Never Comes.

Music videos for "Let Me Go", "GGF (Golden Gate Fields)", "Young Al Capone", "I Am Forever", "Dead Bodies", "Rwanda", "Blackhawk Down", "Black Derby Jacket", "Rattlesnake", "Poison" and "Loki" were also released.

That sound ends up being something like a cross between the Clash circa 1978 and the hardcore punk of the early-'80s Los Angeles scene.

"Rwanda" is a stutter-step anthem of sympathy for a devastated country; "Corruption" has an atonal power-chord progression and headlong tempo that Minor Threat would have killed for; and "Blackhawk Down" is built on a ridiculously catchy descending bassline and a distinctly Oi!-flavored singalong chorus.