This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If at first you do succeed, repeat, repeat ad nauseam. That’s rule No. 1 in the music biz — and the obvious battle plan behind this soundtrack to the latest comic-book flick The Punisher.
Following closely in the unitarded footsteps of Spider-Man and Daredevil, The Punisher: The Album delivers a one-dimensional onslaught of pummelling nu-metal and post-grunge power from usual suspects like Drowning Pool, Nickelback, Finger Eleven, Seether, Jerry Cantrell and assorted members of Evanescence. The only bright spot in the whole humourless enterprise comes courtesy of Queens Of The Stone Age, who proffer a drily witty cover of Romeo Void’s Never Say Never (“I might like you better if we slept together”). Doubtless this 19-track disc will appeal to the young headbangers it’s aimed at, but unless you’re a teen comic geek, you might feel like the one being punished.
