Texas-based flash metal label Perris Records have done the sleaze rock world a big favor by re-releasing this seminal mid-90’s sonic document from semi-legendary Swedish cock rock sensations Machinegun Kelly. MGK featured half of Swede hardcore punk institution Anti-Cimex (guitar, bass), and half of infamous sleaze rockers Nasty Idols (drums, singer Andy Pierce). They recorded and released these 10 bludgeoning tracks in ’95, and then promptly broke up under suitably seedy circumstances.* If you were either savvy or Swedish enough to have owned this during it’s first run, then mebbe this CD is old news, but I imagine most of Planet Rock will be experiencing Machinegun Kelly for the first time here, so brace yrself for an almost perfectly sutured Frankenrawk monster that has all the aggro-sleaze of GNR, the big dumb teenage pop-hooks of Disneyland After Dark, the stripper-grind stomp of Girls-era Crue, and the spandex acrobatics of Van Halen (Roth versh, natch). The songs don’t quite reach the epic cock n’ roll proportions of Andy’s current band, the unstoppable, unstoppable United Enemies, but hey, it was 10 years ago, the dude was still young and reckless. The hooky, handclap-heavy “Sister Sin” is the definitely the highlight of the record, even if it IS a Faster Pussycat song (and c’mon, let’s not kid ourselves), but the whole record is just one big fingerless gloved punch in the guts of pure, shameless flash metal. Seriously, with the Bret Michaels wolf-whistles and everything. I suppose it might have sounded a little late-in-the-game in 1995, but it’s gloriously retro now, and if yr at all nostalgic for the days when rock ruled the world (and you should be), then yr gonna fuckin’ flip out when you hear this, because it’s like all of those bands, only on 11.