Back from the Grave, Volume 9 (LP)
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| Released | 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 1960s | |||
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| Label | Crypt | |||
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| Released | 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 1960s | |||
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Back from the Grave, Volume 9, released on LP in 2015, is the ninth installment in the Back from the Grave series of garage rock compilations. Like all the entries in the series it was assembled by Tim Warren of Crypt Records. As indicated in the subheading which reads "Raw Blastin' Mid 60s Punk," this collection consists of many songs which display the rawer and more aggressive side of the genre and are often characterized by the use of fuzztone-distorted guitars and rough vocals. In typical fashion, the set generally excludes psychedelic, folk rock, and pop-influenced material in favor of basic primitive rock and roll.
The packaging contains well-researched liner notes written by Chris Bishop of Garage Hangover.com which convey basic information about each song and group, such as origin, recording date, and biographical sketches, as well as photographs of the bands. The album cover artwork features a highly satirical cartoon by Olaf Jens depicting noticeably gleeful revivified zombies who, on this occasion, have returned from "rock and roll heaven" on "retro" flying saucers and are targeting their customary victims: followers of supposedly "heretical" genres of music which have come to prominence over the years, which in this case include heavy metal, hardcore punk (with the insinuation that it is not "true" punk), rap, and modern pop-country—all done with a noticeable disdain for iPhones, music downloads, and other popular specimens of current technology and fashion (i.e. "exposed undies"), but are presented as "minor figures" in Jens' Sistine Chapel-like diorama depicting a global TNT-blasted apocalypse initiated as a result of the zombies' "scorched earth" policy of "cleansing" in their quest to permanently re-establish the reign of "true" rock & roll.
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