The next in ROOTS series features exclusive tracks from Japan's SIGH - The shadowking- and Eibon Records NOTHING plus rare tracks from international recording artist PANTELONES ABAJO MARINERO and South Africa's GROINCHURN. These and over a dozen more bring you over 73 minutes of music for the price of a CD single! The Evil Return of Roots II is the second installment (only about six months apart, it seems to me)of the Roots compilation CD series on Minneapolis's Root-O-Evil Records. The first CD was released jointly with neighbor label Left Alone Creations, whereas Roots II comes solely under the Root-O-Evil banner. Once again it's a real mixed bag in terms of both style and quality. A lot of demo-level project bands seems to be the trend with the tracklists of the Roots series. Entries from the two-bored-pretty-funny-guys category this time around include 2 Nice Fellows giving Lemmy his due (performing a cover of "Ace of Spades"), Pantalones Abajo Marinero, and the Moron Take-a-Dirt-Nap Choir (doing an a capella song called "Fuck You"). The "Ace of Spades" thing is really pretty funny, and the Especially Likely Sloth track (a cover of "Hammer Smashed Face") is also quite choice. Along for the ride are killer tracks from Sigh. Impaler, Nothing,Ascension, Somnus, Porcelin God, The Unholy, Plow Barrel and 21st Century Sin, which muster a level! of professionality that the aforementioned certainly lack (and with good reason). Ripsnorter is definately one to watch, with a very catchy blend of thrash metal and Misfits-style horror punk apparent in "Millennium". I don't know what the pricing of these CD's is, but if they were, say 5 bucks, it'd be worth it. These will come out regularly I guess, and as long as the line-up stays at some album- level bands, some SERIOUS demo-level bands, and two or three funny things, it might survive as a kind of underground variety show.

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Label: Root of All Evil | Item Code: Various | Country: United States | Year: 1999 | Genre: Death Metal

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