Various Artists - Killed By Meth #5 - New LP

Killed By Meth rustbelt punk-rock comp in from Canada, #5 has arrived, 2021, one of the best comps series ever created, each copy with one slightly crushed corner for no extra charge, #5 again featuring a few bands you might have heard, current bands not oldies moldies, Hoosier Erik Nervous and Louisville sluggers Archaeas, and tons of bands that you need to hear, and now you can, you can have tons of fun listening to the cuts and finding the bands on the map on back, the set opening with the ugly beauty crash bang of Silicon Heartbeat of Kalamazoo...Buffalo giving us Eyes and Flys with their spooky basement rock sounds, the 2-chord muddy puddle stomp of Alpha Hopper that piledrives into twin-guitar excess to power-drill the sounds into your skull...the Cincinnati crunch of Black Planet...the noisey focus of Indianapolis' Doppler Radar and the Local New...up to Toronto...west to Green Bay...a tour of the rustbelt hidden from the roadways, the view from a train where you see the abandoned lots and junkyards, dirty T-shirts, a tornado ripping through a trailer park and a nearly abandoned industrial park, tearing corrugated tin from drywall and whipping it around like the blades of a chopper, the cold exposed rebar and stench of toxic water sweating from a rusty pipe. It's great, It's Trash, it's available now, KBM #5 along with a small restock of #3 and #4.  Nonstop trashy raw punk fun fast feeding frenzy from around the Rust Belt...Michigan, Ontario Canada, Buffalo, Ohio...  These are current bands, not bootlegged old 7" from days of old, but fans of KBD should love this shit.  Most of the cuts have not been released elsewhere. --winch