I spun this fucking beast last night and came to eight hours later with a massive headache and purple welts the size of eight balls all over my body. Now, I’m not saying the Crank County Daredevils and their brand of bare knuckle biker metal are to blame, but it’s not every day that I set out to prove to the world that I am, in fact, indestructible. But that’s the CCD for ya, my friends – a soundtrack to many, many nights of fearless, Godless, bloody black mayhem that’ll kill handfuls of brain cells at a time. It’s disturbingly sick how punishing these motherfuckers are, man, like a head full of rattlesnakes, or like Nashville Pussy but with more fucking drugs, more fucking balls, more fucking eyeliner, more fucking venom, and more fucking, um…fucking! And what kills you only makes you stronger, and since these hog town harlots ain’t dead or in jail yet, you gotta believe that crime does pay. The CCD are, quite literally, back in the nasty – and back to piss you off, it seems – with Livin’ in the Red, ten rip-snorting odes* to hard living and living hard, a lethal combination of power and disease fueled by a perpetual state of bad-assery that begs for a legion of degenerate faithful to worship the flash metal hammer n’ roll of tracks like “We Want it All,” “Love You Like a Suicide,” and “Rock-N-Roll Homicide” or the druggy burn of giant cock pleasers like “Fueled By a Fifth,” “Livin’ in the Red,” and “Devils Ride”. So be ready, Jack, because this is some relentless shit, loud and proud to be exact, and if you’re not one of them glory whores eager to show off the battle scars when the dust settles, or if you don’t have an unhealthy obsession with Motorhead and Guns N’ Roses, you’re gonna have to turn around right now and crawl back home. But for the rest of you adrenaline junkies, this is your fix right here, so dig in and prepare to get annihilated.

*Ok, nine rip-snorting odes. The tenth song, a hidden track, is a steamy acoustic number. It still kicks your ass, but in a different kind of way.
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- Jeff Warren