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I remember about 8 years ago when Kerrang first
started releasing their compilation albums with
Kerrang the album 1,2 and 3, all three of the compilation
albums were good and at the time were crammed with
so much nu-metal and poppy punk as they were the
in scenes at the time, then suddenly the Kerrang
album’s died off for a few years, until 2008
when they released Kerrang the album 2008, it was
a fantastic compilation and now Kerrang are back
with Kerrang the album 2009 which is their biggest
and best compilation album to date, featuring 42
tracks from some of the best well established acts
and also from new bands on the horizon.
The good thing about Kerrang the album 2009 is
that it’s mainly going to be teenagers who
pick up the album, and it is going to be teenagers
who are new to the whole alternative music scene
and what they will get out of the album is a massive
list of bands that they would not necessarily
heard of before but now love thanks to the massive
diverse band and track list the compilation album
features.
The album features some of the best tracks to
be released in 2009 so far such as ‘Know
Your Enemy’ from Green Day, ‘Rusted
From The Rain’ by Billy Talent, ‘Desolation
Row’ by My Chemical Romance, ‘Sulfur’
by Slipknot, ‘Engine Skull’ by the
Cancer Bats, ‘Omen’ by The Prodigy,
and just by this short list of some of the bands
and songs that feature on the album you can see
it is a very diverse mix that features a band
from pretty much every genre of the alternative
music scene, for example if you are a My Chemical
Romance fan and bought the compilation just because
you are a fan of Kerrang in general and love the
My Chemical Romance song, you will probably walk
away loving the songs by Green Day, Billy Talent,
Paramore, You Me At Six and many others which
will show that the £9 you just spent of
Kerrang ‘The Album 2009’ was money
well spent as you now have 4 or 5 more bands that
you now love and might not of had the chance to
come across if you didn’t buy the album.
It is even worth buying the album just for those
one off songs that you like by bands such as ‘Shake
It’ by Metro Station and ‘Desolation
Row’ by My Chemical Romance, they are both
bands that I personally would not normally listen
to but I like both songs and it really isn’t
worth buying each bands album just for the one
song and that is another factor that puts a positive
on ‘Kerrang The Album 2009’.
‘Kerrang The Album 2009’ is the best
alternative music compilation CD so far this year,
it is like the alternative version of the Now
That’s What I Call Music compilation series,
but where the now series comes out every quarter,
the Kerrang compilations come out every year and
seriously does feature some of the best songs
of the year so far.
If you are a newbie to the alternative music
scene then this would seriously be the best started
point for you, and if you generally like the majority
of the songs that feature on the album then you
really can’t go wrong with 42 tracks for
£9 now can you?
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Disc 1
1. Green Day - Know
Your Enemy
2. Billy Talent - Rusted From The Rain
3. My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
4. Paramore - Misery Business
5. You Me @ Six - Save It For The Bedroom
6. The All American Rejects - Gives You Hell
7. New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends
8. The Blackout - Stfuppercut
9. The King Blues - Save The World, Get The Girl
10. Spinnerette - Rebelious Palpitations
11. Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals
12. Madina Lake - Let's Get Outta Here
13. Swound! - We Are A Danger
14. Gallows - London Is The Reason
15. The Ghost Of A Thousand - Bright Lights
16. Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
17. Chiodos - Lexington
18. Cobra Starship - Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason
We're Famous
19. Metro Station - Shake It
20. Enter Shikari - Juggernauts
21. The Prodigy - Omen
Disc 2
1. Slipknot - Sulfer
2. Dragonforce - Heroes Of Our Time
3. Slayer - Psycopathy Red
4. Killswitch Engage - Starting Over
5. Mastadon - Divinations
6. Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day
7. Theory Of A Deadman - Hate My Life
8. In Case Of Fire - Enemies
9. Disturbed - The Night
10. Devildriver - Pray For Villains
11. Shinedown - Sound Of Madness
12. Papa Roach - Lifeline
13. Fightstar - Mercury Summer
14. Static-X - Stingwray
15. Lamb Of God - Set To Fail
16. Cancer Bats - Engine Skull
17. Bring Me The Horizon - Football
18. Season Is Over
19. Blakfish - Economics
20. Outcry Collective -
21. The Dead Formats - Dirty White Shoes
22. Rolo Tomassi - I Love Turbulence |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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