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High Crimes (Nuclear Blast)

Never before has a supergroup made as little sense as The Damned Things, whilst somehow sounding as goddamn brilliant as they do. Following their severely underrated 2010 opus Ironiclast, High Crimes offers all the best elements of its constituents’ day jobs: there’s the pop-centric joviality of , the fierce thrashiness of , the punishingly catchy melodicism of and the slick Southern twinge, fusing, across ten blisteringly sharp and resoundingly dynamic cuts, into a visceral avalanche of new-wave punk anthems. The unlikely coupling of Scott Ian and Joe Trohman on guitars shines especially bright on the breakneck-paced and kaleidoscopic .

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