Clearly, it's not Age of Quarrel...

A few weeks back while reading RWHAF blog, a reissue of the Cro-Mags "Alpha Omega" LP caught my eye. Now, we all know that nothing compares to Age of Quarrel. I have heard some half hearted arguments that AOQ is not their best stuff, and all this is baloney. My girlfriend happens to like this record more than Age of Quarrel, but she is into metal and Slayer and all that crap. I am sorry if I am offending ya'll, but as clearly labeled at the top of this blog this is a hardcore, hip hop, punk and Oi! blog... I am not down with very much metal, so this release has always been just to metal for me. I still enjoy this album though... (Eyes of Tomorrow & See the Signs gets me hype as fuck).

Enough griping, this is still Cro-Mags were talking about on limited vinyl. The clear was limited to /100 and exclusive to Revelation, /100 red were exclusive to Green Hell Records, and /100 blue and /200 black exclusive to Demons Run Amok Records.  Since the other labels are European, I was more than happy to scoop a limited copy from Rev. I'm glad I got on it right away, because the Rev copies sold out super quick. If RWHAF hadn't tipped me off, I would have missed out on this. Thanks bro!

 Holy crap dudes... Metal as fuck. That is a funny ass picture, I love Harley's hair and JJ's glasses. Is Harley wearing a shemagh? Sweet!

We be causin' a mosh pit like Cro-Mags at L'amours...

Here is my sealed copy of Heavy Metal Kings which is Vinny Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks and Ill Bill of Non-Phixion. Pretty solid album, I wouldn't say its a soon to be classic or anything like that, but one of the better hip hop releases of 2011. I'm surprised more hard core kids don't fuck with these dudes. They use a ton of hardcore references in their songs, which is fucking awesome. "I'm hardcore like Paul Bearer in Sheer Terror" - Vinnie Paz, or "Where to go, we gotta know, like Harley Flannagan" - Ill Bill.   Vinnie Paz is even rocking the Keepers of the Faith shirt on the back cover! My favorite song on this album is "Age Of Quarrel", with the "We be causin a mosh pit like Cro-Mags at L'amours" chorus, here it is below:

If you don't have anything by these guys I would recommend Jedi Mind Tricks "Legacy of Blood", "Visions of Ghandi" or "Violent by Design" or Ill Bill's "What's wrong with Bill?" first. Don't get me wrong, this is a solid release but some of the tracks seem rushed and in my opinion they should have just kept them on mix tapes. I bought this when I went to see them at Slim's in SF last year. They had Danny Diablo (Lord Ezec) from Skarhead/Crown of Thornz open for them on his hip hop shit, and wow that was really sad. He really needs to stay with the hardcore shit, he has no business at all in hip hop. I felt bad cause half the crowd was just clowning on him the entire time. Heres some footage from Heavy Metal Kings' set that night on my youtube channel: