

The Nashville-based label was able to stretch Hank3”²s album count to seven by releasing Hillbilly Jokerin 2011 a “hellbilly” album Curb initially rejected, but released after Hank3 had fulfilled his contract at the end of 2010. Hank3 entered into a six album contract with Curb in the late 90”²s. Hank3’s usual response to his fans on these post-contract Curb releases is to “Burn it, and give it away.” It’s pretty safe to say that no matter what finds itself on the track list, it will be music released previously and/or that is already out there on YouTube or other locations.

One of the issues with some of Curb’s post-contract releases from Hank3 is they haven’t warned consumers they’re buying metal albums instead of country, causing confusion and anger from some fans. Why Curb is deciding to go with the Hank III name instead of Assjack might be about marketing, or maybe some country songs will be included on the album as well. Hank3 also recorded another Eyehategod song for the tribute called “Torn Between Suicide and Breakfast” that could be a pretty safe bet for making the track list of the new album, along with whatever other Assjack or metal songs Curb somehow wrangled out of Hank3 during his years at the label. The song “ Take As Needed For Pain” is a cover song from the metal band Eyehategod that Hank3 turned into a 10-minute epic for the tribute album For The Sick: A Tribute to Eyehategod released in 2007 and recorded under the name “The Unholy 3” which is the name of one of Hank3’s side projects. Though the album is being credited at the moment to Hank III, early incarnations of this release had it denoted as “Assjack II.” Assjack is the name of Hank3’s early heavy metal project that released a self-titled album with Curb in 2009. That’s right, the Curb Records madness continues, and continues to reach for comical, if not maniacal heights.Īpparently Curb Records is readying the release of a new Hank III (not ‘Hank3’ as he goes by now) album called Take As Needed For Pain, scheduled to be made available to the public on April 14th, 2015.
