PTL Klub – Complete Discography
September 1, 2010
Sometimes you hear about bands that other bands would get nervous about playing with and usually because they would blow any other band off stage. However with PTL Klub it was not the music that people were intimidated but rather the members of the band who were notorious for intimidating people who got in there way. Allegedly these guys gave 7 Seconds a decent scare when vocalist Dr. Death decided that he was not impressed by the most positive band in Hardcore and even G.G. Allen was threatened by PTL after he broke one of the band’s microphones. PTL Klub were from Woburn, Massachusetts which is just minutes away from Boston, but like their cohorts in Psycho these guys were complete outsiders from the Boston scene with no agenda but to provoke people. In this sense they were also comparable to Vile who made it a point to agitate their Bean Town peers.
PTL’s music was hard and heavy even in comparison to most of the bands in Boston who were their contemporaries. They were one of the few East Coast bands to put out records on Mystic and they took pride in going against the grain. A lesser known fact about this band is that Dr. Death’s son, Jim Death was the singer for the modern Hardcore band Hammer Bros. Anyway it’s great to have all of these old PTL Klub recordings on one disc and there’s some real gems here, including the songs off the band’s definitive "13 Commandments" L.P.. Though they were complete shock rockers, PTL had some great tunes like the coke sniffing anthem "The Real Thing" and the song that reminds you not to get on Dr. Death’s bad side, "Warning." The band always managed to keep things less than serious with covers of the Green Acres theme song and Jefferson Airplane’s "White Rabbit." Fans of the Mentors’ humor or heavier 80′s Hardcore should definitely check this out.
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