ROLLINS BAND

ROLLINS BAND
GET SOME GO AGAIN (2000)
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Nearing mid-life and showing no signs of cooling down, Henry Rollins - he of semi-truck tire neck, bulldog brows and philosophical comedy rants (oh, and former vocalist for hardcore punk vibratos Black Flag) - takes his aging with a steady dose of black back-to-basics, thanks to accompaniment from California punks Mother Superior (a wild bunch that includes old axe-swingers from Thin Lizzy and The MC5). Literaryily speaking, Rollins' saber-toothed righteousness is at full steam, chewing pitilessly through a host of mod social issues (macho stupidity, domestic violence, the failings of love, physical frailty, inner strength, er... scented candles?). But the thrash-a-millisecond verve of his past has been tightened to taut focus; crunching and heaving power rock as synchronized, menacing and purposeful as the approaching footsteps of a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex. It's rockin' post-punk for aging fellers sans buffoonery, full of noncognito classic rock sturm and drang finessed with potent arena riffing as relentless as shellfire in a military target practice and scented with a sour spritz of Black Sabbath simplicity. Rarely does any of it sound remotely like anything else in the hard rock dungeon, that it is, it ignores all the trappings of mod-metal, qualifying GSGA as mindless jackhammering punk/metal at it's smartest.

1. Illumination
2. Get Some Go Again
3. Monster
4. Love's So Heavy
5. Thinking Cap
6. Change It Up
7. I Go Day Glo
8. Are You Ready?
9. On the Day
10. You Let Yourself Down
11. Brother Interior
12. Hotter and Hotter
13. Illuminator
14. Money Train