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Are The Slack still on Hell-Cat? Why wasn't Self Medication put out on Hell-Cat?
I can't seem to find any info about this on the web, although the Hell-Cat wiki page say they have either left the label or been dropped. Kinda hard to imagine that they would keep Aggrolites and Westbound and drop the Slack. F-Tim if that is the case, but wiki aint always right.

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band members stated ...

band members stated here (or in some interviews), that their hellcat albums were one-off deals, and that they wanted to release a lot more music, so that's why there was a lot of slack stuff on other labels. also the band felt that the label wasn't doing all they can for them, and simply decided to try somewhere else. i guess hellcat did nothing to covince them to stay.

  • By cypriano at 2008-06-30 01:23
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AFAIK, the Slack left

AFAIK, the Slack left hellcat, something to do with royalties. Basically Hellcat wasn't marketing the last Slackers album and they were also ripping them off on royalties. Also, notice how some really good Slack side-projects were never on hell-cat? International War Crimnal and Slackers and Friends are two that come to mind. Either way, I'm just happy to still be getting new albums from my favorite band.

  • By iclash at 2008-06-27 18:51
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bah!

When I first heard "Peculiur" I tough this one could be big. Features the best anti-war songs of this era which I think rank amongst the best of the 60's and 70's but I guess good music in the mainstream is not the way of this decade (hey, it's the new 80's!). I suppose that Orange song "I Hate Republicans" was better for the label. A child could have wrote those lyrics. "Keep it Simple" sums up my feelings of the early days of the Iraq War to the point that I get chills each time I hear it.

  • By achampagne at 2008-07-16 10:17
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peculiar

Peculiar has the best production I ever heard in any Slackers record, even the new Self Medication...I think that was a really good point being a Hell-Cat/Epitaph band. But Slackers is a kind of hyperactive band so they really need some more attention too :p

  • By gtodorov at 2008-07-25 18:59
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