When I received this CD in the mail I jumped on my chair. After some Epitaph releases I thought this band was not around anymore, went on hiatus or something, as I did not hear from them in such a long time. And now, what’s this? A new album from Total Chaos entitled “Punk Invasion”. Dang! They’re back. Actually this is a re-release from Reject Records, but anyway. In true 1977 punk fashion, this band is able to bring together all of the clichès of The Exploited, GBH, Sex Pistols, 999, Subhumans, Chaos UK, and the likes. And the new album shows this: anthems like “Riot!!!”, “A Punk Killed”, “War In L.A.”, “Hey Freak Sid’s Dead” are the songs that we already heard something like 10,000 times before, but hey, that’s ok to listen to them cuz they’re punks. Important enought to mention is the cover of Twisted Sister “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, I guess the most covered tune of all the time, and the cover of “Sex And Violence” by The Exploited, which give props to this band to have some punk roots. I really do not think I will listen to this album a lot of times: I already own “Patriotic Shock” and “Pledge Of Defiance” and I don’t feel the need to be pissed off,not today. | carlo@staff.truepunk.com