A punk rock party record with, as the title implies, favorite oldsters and young bucks, near thirty tracks in all, cuz someone thought it was a good idea.
I’m always surprised by how little I like Kreator’s ’90s releases. ’87’s Terrible Certainty is one of my faves, right up there with Slayer’s Reign in Blood.
With a pedigree this impressive, you can imagine this reporter’s frothy drool upon seein’ some ads around trumpeting the forthcoming Knoxville Girls release.
A breath of fresh air in an angrier-than-thou biz. Like The Donnas is/was to punk, Kittie bring youthful exuberance to a genre that speaks to angry youth.
Half Japanese, half American hardcore, many of the names here are familiar, and the others are the Japanese bands that make this comp worth listening to.
How better to offer tribute to a band that criss-crossed punk, hardcore, metal, and reggae than to have a long and diverse comp that’s practically unlistenable?