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WRECKAGE is the band of TONY LESTAT from the USA, who was a very active man in the late 80s/early 90s Gothic-scene in the USA. His bands LIKE WRECKAGE and the follow-up WRECKAGE were very active and here we get a fine collection of rare and unreleased tracks of typical US-Death-Rock at its best. Coming from the same musical womb as bands like Empire Hideous, Deep Eynde and others, here we hear best Goth-Punk with a very big 80s touch. Do you like Screams For Tina? Try out WRECKAGE (it does not wonder, that various WRECKAGE members went on to play with Warren Mansfield of Screams For Tina on the CD-release!). We find William Faith of Faith And The Muse also in the early period of this band, so the circle closes. WRECKAGE has often been compared to The Damned, but I can only hear very few similarities, maybe both bands have some basic ideas in common, but the music is different, WRECKAGE present a very loveable B-Movie character and seems to be more Gothic than Punk. Anyway, they also present us a good cover of the Ramones´ "I wanna live", but I prefer the original tracks. Simply great Death-Rock in the vein of the above mentioned bands. (A.P.)