But what makes the singer's second full-length so powerful is a more bare-knuckled attack, with grungy powderfinger guitars and lightning-crack drums adding new depth to the drama.
It exposed the bare-knuckled infighting that the secretive leadership prefers to hide and affirmed an already skeptical public's dim view about corrupt dealings in the party.
In its early years only biting and eye-gouging were banned as bare-knuckled boxers, sumo wrestlers, grapplers, ju-jitsu experts and other specialists went toe-to-toe.
