The Murder City Devils - Idle Hands

What this video is

Released June 6, 2000, 'Idle Hands' belongs to the Murder City Devils' third and most critically acclaimed album 'In Name and Blood,' released on Sub Pop Records. The band—formed in Seattle in 1996—represented the last vital wave of Sub Pop's post-grunge underground, blending garage punk, horror-inflected organ rock, and raw post-hardcore energy. By 2000, they were at their commercial and artistic peak, having…

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A defining document of early-2000s Pacific Northwest garage punk at its most kinetically distilled. The Murder City Devils synthesized the Misfits' horror swagger, Johnny Thunders-derived rock decadence, and Sub Pop's indie underground into a cohesive sound that influenced subsequent Seattle…