Hell In A Handbasket

Hell In A Handbasket were a band. But not just ANY band...Hell In A Handbasket were THE band, written of in the Book of Revelations, prophesised in the writings of Nostradamus, gossiped about in the Weekly World News...THE BAND that would bring so much calamity to Earth. Some have been foolish enough to label them, in retrospect, as mere "punk rock"; but o, they were so much more. Claiming ancestry from such historical rabble-rousers as The Birthday Party, Beasts of Bourbon, The Cramps and Dead Kennedys, Hell In A Handbasket were the Second Coming of something very, very EVIL. But alas, it was not to be. The conspiring of forces more vile than could ever have been CONCEIVED of led to the group's premature disbanding: I speak of the coming of so-called modern "hardcore" punk music, and of "emo"; and of the resultant death of Rock 'N' Roll. But fear not; or rather, fear APLENTY. For the wickedness that was Hell In A Handbasket festers still, brimming not far beneath the surface of the Earth's crust, waiting to burst forth again upon an unsuspecting world. There is much more mischief yet to come from the bowels of Hell...many an unfinished recording, many an unreleased record; and, just perhaps, the possibility of more LIVE mayhem the likes of which this Earth has rarely seen. Proceed at your own peril, and beware...for here be DRAGONS...