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Cover Art Rollins Band
Come In and Burn
[Dreamworks]
Rating: 3.5

Mean ass fucker, that's Rollins. Intense, psycho- mutant thick-neck, that's Rollins. Gripping, powerful music that utilizes its relentless attack as its most powerful weapon, that's Rollins. But not Come In & Burn. What happened after The End of Silence that fucked up Rollins' music? To follow such a powerful album with this terrible record is criminal. In Get In The Van (his book chronicling his tours with Black Flag), he constantly bitch-slapped his fans:

"They come rolling in, giving us shit about this and that, telling us what songs we're going to play. It's funny when I tell them to fuck themselves."

....Uh, is Come In and Burn supposed to be punishment, Henry?

-James P. Wisdom

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