ARNOCORPS: The Ballsy Vinyl LP

Arnold Schwarzenegger as a source of hardcore punk mythology sounds like a bit. ArnoCorps committed to the bit so hard they built an entire genre out of it, calling it "Action Adventure Hardcore" and playing it completely, terrifyingly straight.

San Francisco's ArnoCorps arrived in 2005 treating Predator, Commando and Total Recall not as camp but as sacred texts, delivering the debut full-length The Ballsy with the kind of manic conviction that makes you question who's actually in on the joke. The answer, it turns out, is everyone, and that's exactly what makes it work. Loud, fast, absurd, and somehow genuinely ripping punk rock, this record exists at the intersection of hardcore, hard rock, and performance art, and it belongs in your collection next to your GG Allin records and your Schwarzenegger Blu-rays.

Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Hard Rock. Country of origin: USA.

Fans of: The Bronx, Turbonegro, Zeke