The Guttermouth Covered With Ants vinyl you’re looking at is a reissue of the band’s 2001 Epitaph full-length, licensed and pressed by Double Helix Records under catalog number DHR 19. Guttermouth has been making deliberately obnoxious, button-pushing California punk since 1989, and this record sits comfortably in the middle of a catalog built on crude humor, fast riffs, and zero interest in being taken seriously. That’s the whole point, and they’ve always been upfront about it.
Guttermouth: Crude, Committed, and Still at It
Since forming in Huntington Beach in 1989, Guttermouth carved out a specific lane: melodic punk with shock humor, offensive lyrics, and a general posture of gleeful antagonism. They got banned from countries. They got dropped from tours. None of it slowed them down. There’s a certain integrity in that, actually. While a lot of their peers softened up or chased radio play, Guttermouth stayed committed to being exactly the band their audience signed up for. Love them or not, there’s no bait-and-switch with this group.
About the Guttermouth Covered With Ants Vinyl Reissue
Covered With Ants was originally released twice in 2001: first in Europe on March 27 through Epitaph’s EU operation, then in the United States on April 10. It’s a tight record packed with the catchy, California-inflected melodic punk the band had been refining for over a decade by that point. The riffs are hooky, the tempo rarely drops, and the songwriting is sharp enough underneath all the deliberate crudeness that it holds up well on repeated listens. This Double Helix pressing, cataloged as DHR 19, brings the album back to vinyl with the Epitaph license in place, meaning it’s a legitimate reissue rather than a bootleg.
Why This Copy Is Worth Your Attention
Original pressings of Covered With Ants don’t come up that often, and when they do, condition is a gamble. A legitimate licensed reissue on Double Helix gives collectors a clean, playable copy of an album that spent years being harder to find on wax than it deserved to be. If you’re building out a proper Epitaph-era melodic punk collection, or if you already own Guttermouth’s earlier records and have a gap right around the 2001 period, this fills it properly. It’s also simply a good punk record to have around when you want something fast, loud, and not remotely pretentious. Double Helix kept the Epitaph catalog alive for exactly this kind of collector need, and DHR 19 is a solid example of that work done right.
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