This two disc 40-track set from North Carolina punks Antiseen is actually quite the handy release. The long-running outfit's bloody-knuckles approach to punk was never groundbreaking, but they displayed a consistency through the years in terms of both sound and vision that can't be denied. Waving the flag of the "angry white male" high and proud, Antiseen's brazenly un-PC tales of redneck pride and white-trash glory ("Ugly American," "Wifebeater," "Hate for Power") can be hard to swallow for some. And though the band have always embraced irony and shock as much as any sort of polemical social commentary, chances are they'd be happy with whatever interpretation of their songs a given listener finds most offensive. In fact, that's what makes this compilation so excellent: it shows Antiseen in all of their perplexing, frustrating glory. Menace and bile played at Motorhead speeds is the order of the day, yet there are also head-scratching covers (Roky Erickson's "Two Headed Dog"), rousing anthems ("Trapped in Dixie"), and genuinely funny rants ("Animals, Eat Em"). THE BEST OF ANTISEEN provides punk fans with the perfect opportunity to both love 'em and hate 'em. Just the way Jeff Clayton and the boys like it.