Metal Anarchy

During a Q&A session at Generation Records in New York, Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan explained why he re-recorded the band’s 1986 album “The Age Of Quarrel.” According to him, he was just going to re-record several tracks for his “Wired For Chaos” documentary, but ended up doing the whole thing for the 40th anniversary.

Flanagan said the following:

“That’s why you’ll see in a lot of films, you’ll hear re-recordings of songs. And you’ll be, like, ‘Why did they do that shit?’ … And more often than not, it’s because it was too fucking complicated to get the rights or too expensive. So we wound up in a situation. Obviously most people here don’t know and don’t care, so I’m not gonna bore you with the history of the CRO-MAGS madness and legal drama over the first two albums, which we’ve never still gotten paid for. But the one thing I will say is this: we did have the opportunity to get the shit back, and it just would’ve required me and some of the other bandmembers coming to the table and saying, ‘Yo, guys, let’s get this shit back and just do something with it and all get paid.’ And the other guys were just too — I don’t know, man. They wouldn’t come to the table and have that conversation. So, more or less because of that, I was left with no choice but re-recording some of the songs.”

He also added:

“I wound up going in, and ’cause I was having such a good time and the session was going so well, I said, ‘Fuck it.’ The 40-year anniversary of the album’s coming out next year, so I tracked the whole fucking album. So y’all be able to hear that next year. And I gotta say it sounds kind of like ‘Age Of Quarrel’ meets [CRO-MAGS’ second album, 1989’s] ‘Best Wishes’ in the sense that it’s played like ‘Age Of Quarrel’, but it’s got me on vocals, so it just has a deeper voice, let’s just say.”

[via Blabbermouth]