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Teenage Time Killers is a musical project started in February 2014 by drummer Reed Mullin of the heavy metal band Corrosion of Conformity, guitarist Mick Murphy of the alternative metal band My Ruin, and record producer John "Lou" Lousteau. A supergroup in which Mullin, Murphy, and Lousteau collaborate with numerous other musicians from various punk rock and heavy metal subgenres, the project pays homage to the hardcore punk of the early 1980s and takes its name from the Rudimentary Peni song "Teenage Time Killer" on that band's eponymously-titled 1981 EP. The song is covered on Teenage Time Killers' debut album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1, which was released July 28, 2015 through Rise Records and features contributions from 35 different musicians and singers.

Background
According to Mullin, the circumstances that led to the Teenage Time Killers project began when he saw Them Crooked Vultures perform on the February 6, 2010 episode of Saturday Night Live. During the show, drummer Dave Grohl, a longtime friend of Mullin's, performed in a comedy sketch as a member of the fictitious band "Crisis of Conformity", a parody of the name of Mullin's band Corrosion of Conformity. Mullin drove from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta to see Them Crooked Vultures perform, and Grohl invited him to have Corrosion of Conformity record at Studio 606, Grohl's recording studio in Northridge, Los Angeles. Corrosion of Conformity recorded their 2012 album Corrosion of Conformity there, and Mullin befriended chief recording engineer John Lousteau. Mullin wanted to record some heavier punk rock material, so Lousteau invited him back to work on some songs and asked My Ruin guitarist Mick Murphy to play on them. "I basically said 'Fuck yea, I wanna play guitar on it' because Reed Mullin is one of my favourite drummers", said Murphy. They originally planned to record four or five songs, but "Once we got in the studio, things really took off", said Murphy. "The musical chemistry between Reed, Lou, and me was really natural because we all grew up on classic punk/metal/hardcore, we're all from the southeast and we all wanted to make a raw, spontaneous album with a natural human feel to it. The music for the first five songs was finished really quickly with time to spare, so in the heat of the excitement I came up with three new songs on the spot so we worked those out and recorded them as well."

One of the songs recorded during this first session was "Ode to Sean Hannity", a poem written by English actor and comedian John Cleese in 2008 mocking conservative American political commentator Sean Hannity, which they set to music. Mullin thought of having former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra sing the poem, recalling in 2015 that "I had seen John Cleese from Monty Python on an episode of Keith Olbermann's old MSNBC show a couple years back, where he happened to read his poem 'Ode to Sean Hannity' aloud. It was fucking hilarious: The cadence and the biting political comedy sounded just like a song the Dead Kennedys would have written back in the old days. So, when we were getting our original five songs together for what later turned into Greatest Hits Vol. 1, I put Cleese's poem to music, asked Jello to sing it and he said yes. Thank God."

After this first recording session, Mullin encountered Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe at Los Angeles International Airport and told him about the project. Blythe immediately expressed interest in being involved: "[Mullin] said 'Hey, I’m doing like this punk rock thing...' and before he even finished I was like 'Yes, yes I do. Of course I do. I'm in, said Blythe, a longtime Corrosion of Conformity fan. "Of course I'd want to sing on a record with a dude who had influenced me since I was 14 or 15 years old." Recording with Blythe inspired Mullin, Murphy, and Lousteau to invite other musicians into the project: "After all that, we got crazy and started asking ourselves 'Wouldn't it be cool if [ Articles of Faith singer ] Vic Bondi sang on that?, said Mullin, "or 'What if Nick Oliveri played bass on those Void songs?' and asking all sorts of folks. Surprisingly, everyone said yeah. We went from five songs with one guest singer to like, two dozen songs with 30-plus musicians and singers." "It just kept growing from there into a bunch of different guest singers and musicians from the punk and metal worlds", said Murphy. "At that point we needed more songs, so another 606 session was booked. Reed brought more songs, I brought more songs, we did a couple tunes written by Reed's pal Jonny Webber, one by Goatsnake guitarist Greg Anderson, and we threw in some more covers. By the end we had 21 songs completed with 19 different singers."

Personnel

 * Primary contributors
 * John Lousteau – producer; engineer; mix engineer; drums on tracks 6 and 20
 * Reed Mullin – producer; engineer; lead vocals on tracks 1 and 7; drums on tracks 2–5, 7–12, and 14–19
 * Mick Murphy – producer; guitar on tracks 1–5 and 7–20; bass guitar on tracks 6, 17, and 18


 * Featured musicians
 * Greg Anderson – guitar on tracks 9, 10, 16, and 20
 * Brian Baker – guitar on tracks 6 and 17
 * Jason Browning – guitar on track 15
 * Mike Dean – bass guitar on track 5
 * Dave Grohl – bass guitar on tracks 2–4, 7–9, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 19
 * Pat Hoed – bass guitar on tracks 1 and 20
 * London May – drums on tracks 1 and 13
 * Nick Oliveri – bass guitar on tracks 10 and 16
 * Jim Rota – guitar on track 2
 * Mike Schaefer – guitar on track 3
 * Pat Smear – guitar and bass guitar on track 13


 * Featured vocalists
 * Karl Agell – lead vocals on track 14
 * Aaron Beam – lead vocals on track 18
 * Jello Biafra – lead vocals on track 5
 * Randy Blythe – lead vocals on track 3
 * Vic Bondi – lead vocals on track 19
 * Clifford Dinsmore – lead vocals on track 4
 * Neil Fallon – lead vocals on track 2
 * Tony Foresta – lead vocals on track 16
 * Wiley Hodgden – backing vocals on track 13
 * Marc Inocco – backing vocals on track 13
 * Tairrie B. Murphy – lead vocals on track 12
 * Phil Rind – lead vocals on track 15
 * Trenton Rogers – lead vocals on track 20
 * Matt Skiba – lead vocals on track 6
 * Peter Stahl – lead vocals on track 9
 * Corey Taylor – lead vocals on track 8
 * Tommy Victor – lead vocals on track 11
 * Lee Ving – lead vocals on track 13
 * Woody Weatherman – guitar on track 7
 * Jonny Webber – lead vocals on track 17
 * Mike Williams – lead vocals on track 10


 * Studio personnel
 * Jason Livermore – mastering
 * Vanessa Silberman – assistant engineer
 * Derek Silverman – additional engineering