THE CRAMPS
A year after launching their own Vengeance Records with six classic re-issues, the CRAMPS are now releasing their first new album in over five years. The architects of a wickedly toxibilly sound, their cultural impact has spawned a legion of devil cults, and created in its wake a cavalcade of cave-stomping imitators. On the self-produced Fiends of Dope Island, these charm school rejects apply their sinister handiwork to a volatile combination of incantational rock n roll hexes like "Big Black Witchcraft Rock" and "Papa Satan Sang Louie", put their hoodlum warp on exotica standard "Taboo", swerve and careen through crypt-kickin' blues rave-up "Dopefiend Boogie" and the rampaging 'Wrong Way Ticket", finishing off the album in a musical equivalent of a 13 car pile-up.

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