Insane Clown Posse – BANG! POW! BOOM!

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The Dark Carnival’s most exciting spectacle yet…

I don’t think I’ve ever had this much fun on a murderous rampage since the “Riddle Box” (and that’s my favorite shit right there, by the way). This one makes me feel like a kid aw-struck, watching this bigger than life circus for the first time… Every Dark Carnival album so far has brought their own theme to the table and “Bang! Pow! Boom!” is no exception. It’s sound is fresh and the songs just fucking flow. This L.P. is steers far away from the “dark” part of the theme with a very upbeat, exciting, and just plain happy sounding tone…while still keeping it’s murderous mayhem…and quite frankly, I just want to get my groove on while chopping heads off with my axe…I’m just saying. Once again the Wicked Clowns and the Dark Carnival are a necessary evil to make this decaying world a better place…and it’s AMAZING! I know I’m not the only one out there that was missing producer Mike E. Clark and his beats during his absence from Psychopathic Records…and let me just say… that he came back and blew the fucking lid off the big top with this one. And what a finale to this album…fuck me, it’s awesome! The trio reminds us all why we love the “Dark Carnival”.

There is only one thing that I don’t like about this album…and that is that there is one song right smack in the middle that takes me away from the flow and groove of the rest…but so what…one song out of 16 tracks…whatever.

Now…I can only speculate right now about what I’m about to say…because I haven’t read or heard anything officially on this yet… So far it’s been advertised and announced as “…the return of the Dark Carnival…” but it’s really hard to deny that this is the 7th Joker Card and would be a great place to start a whole new era with this fresh new style and sound.

There are 3 versions of this album for sale…

what i know for certain is that each version has different colored Joker Card (yeah, I said it) Blue, Red, and Green. Also contains different fun photo inserts of the Clowns in each. And each version comes with a different intro song, track 2, to each album (not to be confused with the ‘speach intro’, track 1) and a different bonus track at the end.

Blue and Yellow Intro “BEAUTIFUL DOOM” – Hidden Track “OVER A BITCH”

Red and Yellow Intro “CREEPY FREAK SHOW” – Hidden Track “OUR HERO”

Green and Yellow Intro “THE CLOWNS ARE BACK” – Hidden Track “CHOP CHOP SLIDE”

And all 3 versions are SOLID… and worthy of any collector craving every possible track. At current time, all 3 are available for purchase through HatchetGear.com either individually or as a specially priced 3-pack.