GOATSNAKE Flower Of Disease LP RED VINYL reissue cult doom metal sunn obsessed

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GOATSNAKE Flower Of Disease (RED VINYL) LP

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(Southern Lord)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Once again in print on vinyl, this time as a new 2015 edition on red vinyl.
     Goatsnake are another one of those bands that in my mind should have been hugely popular. The L.A. doom rockers released two consecutive albums that in my opinion rank as some of the best doom records of the past twenty years, their debut I and the monumental second album Flower Of Disease. Combining a classic doom sound with singer Pete Stahl's soaring, soulful vocals (which sound vaguely like those of Cult front man Ian Astbury) and an uncanny songwriting prowess (seriously, these guys wrote songs that were so catchy that they could have easily have landed on the radio if weren't for the fact that they're so goddamn crushing), Goatsnake seemed like they could have totally taken over, but instead, the band broke up briefly, just as their label Man's Ruin was in it's death-throes, and both albums quickly slipped out of print for some time. Now that the band has reunited with it's original lineup and become an active concern once again, we're finally seeing the back catalog being reissued through Southern Lord on both cd and vinyl, the latest being a vinyl and cd re-ish of their second album Flower Of Disease from 2000.
     With the Dog Days Ep that came out shortly before the release of their second album, Goatsnake seemed to be getting darker and slower, and this album is definitely the band at their darkest, a perfect mix of Saint Vitus and Kyuss, The Cult meets sinister biker doom, with heavier songs, slower tempos, and overall a much more "doomed" vibe than ever before. From the crushing, laid-back doom of opener "Flower of Disease" to the chugging soul-sludge of "Prayer for a Dying", the band still delivered the monster grooves, the guitars tuned low, the drumming and pace ponderous, the production crystal clear and powerful. Stahl's vocals still shine, giving the band their trademark rock feel with his unique, soulful delivery, and the songwriting is top notch, with songs like "Easy Greasy" kicking in all drunk and summer-wasted before it tumbles over the abyss into crushing doom, and "A Truckload of Mamma's Muffins" delivering one of Goatsnake's finest slabs of salty, swaggering, saurian blooze-rawk. All of the songs crush, though, from the rocking "El Coyote" and "Live to Die" to the grim crawling doom of "The Dealer" and the impassioned eight minute closer "The River", and they often bring out some sounds and instrumentation that you might not expect from a doom metal album like this, like the almost R&B style backing vocal harmonies, and the harmonica, lap steel, jaw harp, piano and chamber strings that all appear throughout Flower Of Disease. A now-classic slab of California doom, essential for anyone into the slow and low. Long out of print after the original label Man's Ruin shut down almost immediately after it's release, Flower Of Disease is at long last once again in print on both cd and vinyl from Southern Lord.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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