Pummel is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band All, released April 4, 1995, through Interscope Records.

With the commercial success of punk and alternative rock bands in the early 1990s, All began considering offers from major labels.

"[4] "In the past year or so we've seen bands like Green Day and Season to Risk turning up at the Walmart in Brookfield, Missouri", remarked bassist Karl Alvarez.

[6] "We moved to Fort Collins with the advent of the major label because we finally had enough money to live like normal people after all those years", Alvarez later said.

"[6] Using money from their Interscope contract, the band members designed and built their own recording studio, The Blasting Room, with the help of Egerton's father, Dan O'Reilly.

"Bill and I had thrown around the idea of having a studio forever, because by then any time we were home, we were recording Big Drill Car or Chemical People.

"[4] "If you've been listening to the last All albums, you could tell that we were pointing in this direction anyhow," said Alvarez, "and I think there's some staggeringly un-commercial songs on this record—songs like 'Uncle Critic' and 'Hetero', which don't fit into the cutesy-pie-punk routine that the radio's so enamored with right now.

[7][8] Stevenson and Egerton produced the album, and engineered the recording sessions with John Hampton and Brent DeRocher.

A music video was released for "Million Bucks", and the band performed the song on the May 22, 1995, episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

[13] Michael Roberts of Westword said that Pummel was "no departure for the musicians, but given the changing tenor of the times, it sounds newly accessible—probably the most immediately attractive All album yet.

"[6] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave it two stars out of five, calling it "no great step forward, featuring the same punk-pop grind that their cult has grown to love in the band's decade-long existence.

If anything, Pummel displays signs of inertia, as the group not only fails to develop their music, but they are incapable of capturing the raw energy of their independent records.

Reviewing the band's May 25, 1995, performance at Irving Plaza, Jon Pareles of The New York Times called it "openly homophobic, and it goes on to describe the narrator as a 'cigarette smokin', seal killin' redneck.

'"[1] Jon Ginoli, openly gay frontman of the queercore band Pansy Division, called it "an obviously anti-gay backlash song.

'Maybe I should pierce my butt or get a few tattoos / Maybe I should wear a dress and be a homo like you / Normal, hetero, straight guy / Yeah that's right, I'm a straight, normal, girl fuckin', coffee drinkin', titty suckin', cigarette smokin', seal killin', redneck-ass bastard from hell'.