VARIOUS ARTISTS
Contaminated 3.0 (Relapse)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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Possible telephone conversation: "No, Grandma. I really put those guitar lessons you got me years ago to use. You should come see us next week. Uh-huh, we’re called, uh, Regurgitation."

Contaminated 3.0 is a fifty-one track double cd taste test of the sonic holocaust Pennsylvania’s Relapse Records have been able to kick up in their ten year existence.

Your Granny will probably be well chuffed for Nile, Brutal Truth, General Surgery, Exit-13, Nebula, Unsane, Mindrot, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Disrupt, Today is The Day, Coalesce, Burnt by the Sun, and Phobia. The rest probably won’t really do much for her. I mean, Anal Cunt is on it, but doesn’t she already have those 1,700 split-second-song-singles by them already?

The Best Song Of All Award Goes to Nasum, for their "Old and Tired" contribution from the powerful Human 2.0 album. If the new, acne-free Metallica is about as heavy nowadays as a Styrofoam phone booth, give this sampling of emerging noiseheads a try.

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