The more I listen to these, the older I think they are. I was certain that was Slash on monster but, now I'm starting to think thise might be some older demos. I'm certainly intrigued.

I'm in this camp as well. The General sounds much rougher in comparison to monster. Fink and Bucket parts sound intact to my ears. Monsters sounds straight up slash and duff. The vocals on the general sound earlier than monster as well. A lot to unpack and decipher here.

So much wasted time now that we've heard the Village sessions and know what was basically finished by 2001. Those leaks and the mercurial nature of the hardcores are the only reason the album didn't sell 28k it's first week. Despite the band's talking points memo, the leaks kept what little interest was there burning for all that wasted time.

Replacing it with a live track seems par for the course with this regime. An effortless lyric video would have sufficed but, this band hates it's hardcore fanbase. That is an undeniable fact at this point.