ECW the music, "Volume Two, Anarchy. Rules?" Is that what they're
telling me in the opening introduction from... who's this guy? Got one of
their personalities doing some garbled opening rant and since I don't
follow this stuff, don't know who the Hell it is. But I was impressed
with their first project -- had some pretty happening bands/artists
participating and I expect this will be an equally intense listening
experience.
I'm floored moments in with a really impressive cover of
Accept's "Balls to the Wall" by this Chimaira thing that I've never
heard of, but for a new band, they do alright -- they don't fuck it up with
any pointless sampling or scratches and crap like that. Okay, I can get
into this ECW stuff I think... the front cover ain't too hard on the eyes
either -- I meant the back cover actually but then again if the ECW logo
saturating the front cover causes sight difficulty then something's
definitely wrong, bud.
After Chimaira comes an impressive list of late
Heavy Rock talents -- that's what this is all about incidentally,
bludgeoning ya over the head repeatedly -- a "Musical chair" of sorts I
suppose or just insert whatever anomaly with wrestling moves you might
think of. Static-X begins the string with what is typically their sound,
heavy industrial rumblings, blurted verses and enough distortion to make
you numb at the extremities. Coal Chamber, Rob Zombie, Linkin Park,
PMFK, all head the list of some of the latest and most popular Hard Rock
heavyweights doing mainly previously released material or remixed
versions that generally fall in with the self-described quips of the
respective wrestling personalities featured herein -- for instance Elektra
"knows you want her" and so why try to fight it? Speaking of which, I'd
love to be on the receiving end. Well anyway, wrestling and Heavy Metal,
for anyone shy of thirty, have both evolved nearly synonymously as the
aggressive weapon of choice for today's disenfranchised youth and so
might we call this a "match" made south of Heaven?
Their first
installment was damned impressive and featured tunes by the likes of
Motorhead, Scorpions, Megadeth and some of the more seasoned veterans of
the scene. Whoa, what's this, a Metal soundtrack without Megadeth and
Motorhead? What's going on here? Escape from the sleeper hold of
bloated, dated and wuss-based corporate Rock and get with the real
deal-ECW's "Anarchy Rocks," will slam you, bang you and bend you out of
shape faster than you can say "Sinister Minister."