V/A - Change!

V/A
Change!
Hopeless Records/Sub City/Hot Topic
Grade: A-

This CD/DVD compilation serves as a promotional device for the labels and bands, and a benefit device for Sub City and Hot Topic. As most people know, since their start in the early 90s Sub City Records has donated a small percentage of sales to various charities around the country. On this release, Sub City is donating 5% to the Hot Topic Foundation which works to help music education and the arts for young folks. Like many of these compilation releases, if you are a fan of punk, hardcore, and metalcore, you probably already have most of the songs. On the CD, bands include Chiodos, Silverstein, Fall of Troy, As I Lay Dying, Converge, Poison the Well, and Aiden. The seventeen-track DVD is a collection of music videos from nearly all the same bands; not exactly thrilling in the current times of the Internet. Still it is nice to have all these metalcore bands videos on one simply disc. This release is mostly ideal for those only beginning to walk into the darker side of the musical world.