Gammacide's 1987 demo went back into shops on 6 October, on cassette, through Old Guarde Records, the tape imprint of Savant Guarde Records. It arrives seven weeks after the band's new album reached vinyl.
The economics of this are stranger than they look. The tape was manufactured by National Audio Company, the last major cassette manufacturer left in the United States, on music grade ferric stock, which is the kind of specification a label mentions only when the format is the product. Nobody reissues a 1987 demo on cassette to reach a wider audience. They do it to sell an object to the few hundred people who want that object.
What is on it is the five songs the band recorded at Pantego Sound Studios two years before Victims of Science: Endangered Species, Shock Treatment, Gutter Rats, Walking Plague and Incubus. The line up was Varnam Ponville, Rick Perry, Eric Roy and Jamey Milford, and the producer was Jerry Abbott, whose sons later played in Pantera.
The reissue was digitally mastered from the original tapes and the J card reproduces the 1987 packaging down to the band photograph and the lyrics. That is the whole proposition, and for a Texas thrash band who shared stages with Dark Angel, Exodus and Death and then stopped, it is a reasonable one.