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SST Records: Working Muscles, Packaged Wallop

Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 5 September 1986

YOU COULD SAY this is the darkest Dark Age the music world has seen yet, what with commercial radio more dead than death itself and so-called underground rock & roll in a stupefying heavy metal gridlock. Still, there exists on this comatose body the single working muscle that is SST Records, an independent company totally committed to passionate, fashionless music.

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