Dusting Off The Hatchet

                                                                           Carnival Of Carnage *DISCLAIMER: If you just want to read the "then vs. now" retrospectives, skip to Ringmaster. I always hated Carnival of Carnage, and this will just be me describing and hating on it. Carnival of Carnage is an awful album with little redeeming value, and if I weren't a completionist, I'd skip it myself.* The journey begins, unfortunately, with the first Joker's Card: Carnival Of Carnage. For the uninitiated, a quick explanation: Insane Clown Posse has a mythos behind their albums. The idea is that, when you die, you visit a sort of purgatory called "The Dark Carnival". Each Joker's Card represents one of the things you may confront in the Carnival that ultimately determines your fate, and whether you go to Shangri-La or Hell's Pit. A sound concept that actually holds little bearing on the content of each Card, save for the intro and occasiona