A pretty conventional Hypocrisy album featuring huge, stressful guitar sounds, trebly snare and cymbals, and vocals pickled in a sea of electric currents.
Tub Ring works in small doses, but tends to wear thin after a point. Intellectually interesting, technically superior, but it just doesn’t hit you in the gut.
Black Label Society play metal with a bit of Southern rock thrown in, Ironboss play Southern rock with a little bit of metal. A poorly-recorded live disc.
Every so often, a young’n’snotty band comes along that knows the roots of punk rock but doesn’t make a big deal about it. They just blow everyone off the stage.
These songs were written and recorded with Daniel Rey after the Ramones broke up in ’96 and mostly completed before Joey’s tragic death in April, 2001.
While the artier half of Cross My Heart went on to create oblique sulkiness in Dead Red Sea, the poppier half push the hookier moments into a full-blown band.
Link Wray with a realization of The Cramps’ realization of ’60s punk and a modicum of pop-cultural awareness, plus a nice dollup of a freakin’ sense of humor.