A full five years before Jason Voorhees donned his hockey mask for the 1982 film Friday The 13th, Part III (in 3D!), John Cale was getting scary with an axe behind a mask of his own. Guts is a 10-track compilation that pulled together some of his hardest hitting music to that point. The title track sees him pumping hot lead into the man who bedded his wife, and ‘Gun’ is a bizarre ballad of a killer on the loose. Throw in twisted covers of the Modern Lovers’ ‘Pablo Picasso’ and Elvis Presley’s ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ and you’ve got an album that isn’t for the faint of heart…
