LABEL: EPITAPH
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 3/9/2018
ALBUM RELEASE DATE:August 30, 1994
VARIANT: BLACK VINYL LP

How Could Hell Be Any Worse? is the first full-length album released by Bad Religion, which was released on January 19, 1982. Released almost a year after their self-titled EP, it was financed by a $1,000 loan by guitarist Brett Gurewitz’s father. Its success surprised the band when it sold 10,000 copies in under a year.

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. Bad Religion has become synonymous with intelligent and provocative West Coast punk rock and are considered one of the most influential and important bands in the genre. Over the past three decades, the band has continually pushed social boundaries and questioned authority and beliefs armed only with propulsive guitars, charging drumbeats, thoughtful lyrics, and an undying will to inspire and provoke anyone who will listen. Stranger Than Fiction is the eighth album from Bad Religion, and one of their most popular. First released in 1994, the album has been certified Gold and features hit singles” 21st Century Digital Boy”, “Infected” and “Stranger Than Fiction.” Features guest appearances from some of punk’s greatest including Rancid’s Tim Armstrong (vocals on “Television”), Jim Lindberg of Pennywise (vocals on “Marked”), and Wayne Kramer of the MC5 (guitars on “Incomplete”).

TRACKLIST

SIDE 1
1Incomplete
2Leave Me to Mine
3Stranger Than Fiction
4Tiny Voices
5The Handshake
6Better Off Dead
7Infected
SIDE 2
1Television
2Individual
3Hooray for Me
4Slumber
5Marked
6Inner Logic
7What It Is
821st Century (Digital Boy)