Junk Records - Goin' After Pussy

Tonight's compilation has probably the most interesting back story. As you might have noticed, these labels were formed by musicians from actual bands and published stuff from their fellow bands (and that will keep being true for most of the rest). Junk Records is the bedroom label of Katon de Pena. Of course you've never heard of him, but it's actually kind of insane that you haven't.

He's the lead singer of thrash metal band Hirax (their most recent album was in 2014, that's 30 years after they formed, for anybody interested in that sort of thing). They were a legit part of the early thrash scene with Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, and Megadeth. He also formed the band Phantasm with Ron McGovney and Gene Hoglan. He's got a real Bruce Dickenson-like dramatic singing style (but with a healthy dose of play it up sillyness) above a seriously thrashing ensemble. He doesn't do the high screachy falsetto stuff, and that's just fine. Oh yeah, he's also black, but that's only intriguing if you're dumb enough to confuse skin color with taste in music. Not that you doubted the thoroughness of my stalker like research, but he posted a photo of pre-beard Billy Gibbons on facebook yesterday.

Anyway, when he started Junk Records he had one goal in mind: find the absolute fringe of 90s underground rock, and publish it. This is raunchy, intentionally nasty, no hope of radio play, mainstream poison, mosh pit bar fight stuff. The whole album is interspersed with actual messages from his answering machine, and it sounds like he was pretty happy being a popular LA nightclub jackass.

If you don't like bad words and sex and generally harmless degeneracy, then prepare to be offended. But, if Guns & Roses were a little too clean, corporate, and well rehearsed for your liking, then this is awesome stuff. It's a blend of shock punk and trashy rock and roll for sure. You're not gonna wake up humming melodies from any of this stuff ('cause there aren't many), but it's not monotone screaming like some people don't seem to like at all (i accept that i'm weird for finding that enjoyable). Good stuff for when you just want to rattle your brains inside your skull until they ooze out of your ears. Throw your empty beer bottle at the wall and crank it up to annoy your neighbors.

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  1. SimonJuly 12, 2024 at 2:59 PM

    This is one of my fave comps of all time I randomly bought when I was in high school. I wrote Katon a letter that he responded to back then, which was nice of him. Never put it together that he was Katon from Hirax. Very cool.

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