Rise Above – 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three (Various Artists)

Kind of a quickie, here.
Hit and miss. Some tracks are great: Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle/Faith No More) doing ‘Six Pack’, Neil Fallon (Clutch) doing ‘American Waste’, and the absolute stand-out of the record, Ice Mothafuckin T doing ‘Police Story’.
Sadly some tracks just suck: Basically any Black Flag alums (Rollins, Morris, Dukowski). Weren’t you [...]

Slipknot: Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (I’m an ignorant Slipknot fan/Well allow me to retort edition)

Offtopic: Gary, we need an “unrated” GIF. Or “commentary” or “rebuttal” or something. KThxBye
Apparently, I’m an ignorant Slipknot fan. I don’t hate this CD, as such. I’m not going to throw it away, or delete it from iTunes. It’s not unbearable: production is excellent, and (dare I use the phrase?) craftsmanship of songs is at [...]

Slipknot: Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses

I like this release better than Gregg does. Doug, last I heard, agreed with me that it’s pretty much a 1/2 Stone Sour + 1/2 Slipknot release, which ain’t necessarily a bad thing. The interviews with Slipknot have always said that they don’t see more than 5 albums coming from the band, all of them [...]