80-some-odd tracks from national and international acts that even flew under Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets radar but that a couple people thought worthy of preserving.
Cacophone Records, outta Albany, NY, has assembled their Ultra Swank sampler. If trashy, degenabilly punk is something you like, maybe you’ll buy more.
Devin Townsend (re)releases his hilarious story of a fictitious Cookie-Monster-voiced death metal band and their realization that the real money is in punk.
Tonight the Stars Revolt! is quite good, if you get into that whole Korn/Coal Chamber/Sevendust/Limp Bizkit/Kid Rock style of moan-roar-rap-metal stuff.
Necropolis has done a fine job assembling some of the most dangerous, bloodthirsty, ultra-violent, speed-addled lunatics on the planet on Thrashing Holocaust.
Never has another compilation series managed to find such flawless line-ups each and every single time. Signed, unsigned, domestic, foreign, it doesn’t matter.