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Purple vinyl with gatefold cover and printed innersleeve. Limited 300 numbered copies

Crashdiet has almost become the band that never dies as they managed to pick up the pieces and returning everytime they get knocked down. Faced with more adversity than just about any other sleaze rock group that has emanated since the early 2000s, Crashdiet keep suffering setbacks and coming back stronger than ever. After releasing a stellar debut — almost revolutionary — album, Rest In Sleaze, Crashdïet were stopped dead in their tracks when their founder and frontman Dave Lepard sadly took his own life at the age of 25 in 2006. Understandably the remaining Crashdïet members called it quits before deciding a few months later to forge ahead by keeping the band’s legacy alive. Next up was Reckless Love frontman H. Olliver Twisted but after about a year and a half in mid-2008, the singer and the rest of the band agreed to go their separate ways. About a year later, former Jailbeat frontman Simon Cruz was announced as Crashdïet‘s new lead vocalist, which resulted in the sublime record Generation Wild. After another great release consisting of The Savage Playground in 2013, Cruz decided to rather unprofessionally take his ball home and leave without any notice while the band was on a mini-tour of Japan. It’s tough enough surviving a change of lead vocalists once or even twice but surviving a fourth change in lead vocalists could well be fatal for any other band. In fact, Cruz‘s departure from Crashdïet looked like it could have been that nail in the coffin as guitarist Martin Sweet started a new project titled Sweet Creature and he also looked to be busy working as Sister‘s bassist. Manager Sven Morén suggested that new lead vocalist Gabriel Keyes to get Crashdiet back together. Rust is among the heaviest they have done and the band seem to have incorporated a lot of modern metal influences while maintaining the killer melodies prevalent on previous albums. The results actually work quite well and this may just be the album of the year.

Track list:
1. Rust
2. Into The Wild
3. Idiots
4. In The Maze
5. We Are The Legion
6. Crazy
7. Parasite
8. Waiting For Your Love
9. Reptile
10. Stop Weirding Me Out
11. Filth And Flowers