As usual, there’re a few moments of beauty, and a lot of bands you’ve never heard of doing covers of songs that were just fine before they touched them.
It’s good to hear traditional hardcore punk rock, especially since punk rock has turned into peppy pop and hardcore has turned into poorly-written metal.
As if Kiss weren’t enough of a parody, here’s the Dwell Records treatment of Kiss classics, as performed by mediocre death’n’growl bands you’ve never heard of.
Not just eighth-rate death metal, there’s garage, semi-industrial, punk, hard rock, and, um, bad bar rock bands. Most choose material from the first albums.
If one holds her first genuine album released in the States, to the same standards as the self-titled best-of compilation, one will be a bit disappointed.
Johnny Dowd’s this furniture mover who lives in upstate New York and plays a little guitar and possesses a really vivid sense of tragedy, loss, and redemption.