Before you Bongzilla fans scramble for the "buy" button, take note: Nuggets is actually a redesigned and renamed reissue of their Shake: The Singles collection CD that went out of print over a year ago. However, and I know this'll aggravate any diehard Bongzilla fans out there that already own Shake, this redux of Bongzilla's collection of out of print singles contains three additional tracks that didn't appear on the original CD. Here's what this one has: fifteen tracks of lumbering, super heavy stoner sludge with spacey fx and fronted by vicious torn-larynx screams, and completely and wholly obsessed with pot and marijuana culture. Primal, resin-coated sludgecore from the Wisconsin sludgelords....the tunes featured here are bit more raw and simple compared to their later albums like Gateway, though some of these tracks ('Smoke', 'Budgun/THC') are also some of their trippiest jams, with lots of killer Monster Magnet style space fx shot through their bluesy swamp metal dirges.

This collection features Bongzilla's tracks from their Mixed Bag 78" on Rhetoric, the 5 Bong Hits demo, the Hemp For Victory 7", their splits with Cavity, Meatjack, Hellchild, and their tracks from the Painkiller II, Assassins, Nothing Records, and Twin Threat To Your Sanity and He's No Good To Me Dead compilations; the tracks from these last two compilations are the ones that didn't appear on the original Shake collection.

Crucial for fans of Bongzilla and druggy, ultraheavy sludge metal a la Corrupted, Eyehategod, Weedeater, early Boris, Church Of Misery, Buzzoven, Fistula, etc. Comes with new artwork, too.