A genuine post-punk grail, Hell Comes To Your House (1981) is the ultimate early Death Rock compilation, the American equivalent to the Batcave: Young Limbs & Numb Hymns LP which came out a couple years later.
Every song is a banger. The first side kicks off with two tracks by Social Distortion (their earliest studio recordings) and an energetic track by Legal Weapon cementing the scene’s more traditional so-cal punk sound. But it’s the darker tone of side two that does it for me: three killer tracks by 45 Graves, ‘Dogs’ by Christian Death (released a year before the masterpiece that is Only Theatre of Pain), and three aggressive songs by the Eva O-fronted Super Heroines.
Nineteen tracks of pure doom & gloom. I’ve listened to it twice tonight.
