Legends: Crank It Up features 18 original versions of pop/rock hits from the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Among the highlights are the Doobie Brothers' "Listen to the Music," Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty," Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night," America's "Sister Golden Hair," the Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang," and Ace's "How Long."…
Nuclear Assault were among thrash metal's most socially aware groups in their careening speed metal riffing. One of the Big Apple's few challengers (along with Anthrax and Overkill) to the Bay Area dominance of all things thrash metal, Nuclear Assault became immediate contenders due to the cumulative sum of its parts – not to mention, their extreme nature and their ability to back it up with solid musicianship. They also remained closer to the world of hardcore than most of their peers, and at their late-'80s peak released some of the most uncompromising (albeit, interesting) thrash metal offerings of the time. Sadly, because they lacked any commercial material, Nuclear Assault would never reach the mainstream acceptance of a Metallica or Megadeth…
Reality is all well and good, but you can hardly blame bands like KING BASTARD from diving enthusiastically into the grand lysergic sludge tsunami and letting the tides of time and doom take control. "It Came from the Void" is the New Yorkers' debut, but it sounds like a snapshot of something ongoing: a never-ending, whacked-out, post-SABBATH-ian jam, chuntering inexorably away in the swirling shadows, as the mortal realm disintegrates into dust. KING BASTARD call it "psychedelic filth" and that's just about perfect…