For their fifth LP guitarist Caspar Brotzmann's Massaker trio made a slight return to their previously released The Tribe and Black Axis sets, with revised versions of pieces that originally appeared on those early incendiary albums. Originally released on New York label Thirsty Ear, Home is made up of tracks that were recorded at Steinschlag – the studio of German industrial drummer FM Einheit. In this space, alongside bass player Eduardo Delgado Lopez and drummer Danny Longman (who replaced original member Frank Neumeier after Black Axis), Brötzmann steps out to re-shape his old material and graft new flesh onto the musical skeleton he has reanimated. Here his playing reaches new heights of ecstasy, letting loose swathes of reverberating energy that sounds both uplifting and slightly dangerous. On his revisions of ‘The Tribe’ and ‘Templehof’ the playing is almost reverential and prayer like – while on the longer “Massaker” the spirit of Jimi Hendrix makes its presence felt, before being exorcised by Brotzmann with a concentrated fretboard attack, backed up with Longman's ‘Gatling Gun’ styled percussion. Imagine if Albert Ayler had decided to play electric guitar instead of saxophone then this is what he might have sounded like.