WARHORSE As Heaven Turns To Ash 2xLP REISSUE crushing psychdoom cathedral grief

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WARHORSE As Heaven Turns To Ash... 2 x LP

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(Southern Lord)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    A classic slab of crushing, narcotizing ultra-heaviness, Warhorse's 2001 album As Heaven Turns To Ash is finally reissued on vinyl after nearly fifteen years, re-emerging once again to pulverize listeners with one of the most colossal doom metal assaults ever captured to tape. It would turn out to be the one and only album to come from this Worcester, MA outfit, and it's still discussed in hushed, reverent tones amongst certain doom metal circles. Heaven certainly deserves the worship, possessing of one of the most disgustingly heavy guitar tones I've ever heard, welded to some grade-A songwriting and riff construction, the whole album rumbling with a sluggish power and terrific use of dynamics that made this a favorite of mine back when it first came out, matched only by Electric Wizard's Dopethrone (a band with whom Warhorse toured with back when Heaven originally came out - I was lucky enough to see the bands together in a tiny club in downtown Baltimore in March of 2001, and my fucking ears are still ringing.
    This new reissue, gorgeously presented in a heavyweight case-wrapped jacket, pairs the album with the two tracks from the I Am Dying 7" that came out shortly after on Southern Lord; together, it totals eleven tracks of absolutely molten barbarian doom, combining monstrously down-tuned riffage and lumbering sauropod tempos with Jerry Orne's awesome gravelly roar, which sounds like he's been sucking on a piece of concrete for the past week. The album's heavier tracks are tied together with some wickedly sinister, lysergically glazed psych guitar instrumentals that all seem to head in the same direction: straight into the mouth of hell. Like a subwoofer-blowing, slow-motion avalanche of rock and bone and asphalt, those quieter moments of zonked-out apocalyptic introspection and almost raga-like drone (like the sublime liquid psychedelia of "Amber Vial") all build to brutally sudden eruptions of titanic mega-riffage. It's an absurdly heavy feast of tar-blasted doom metal, one that somehow managed to carve out a singular sound amongst the rising wave of likeminded bands that were already crawling out of the resin-stained woodwork back around 2000. While other bands were aping Blues For The Red Sun, Warhorse assaulted the listener with gargantuan doom, working in sublimely shadowy bits of jazziness and maudlin piano as well as gouts of mind-melting flange effects, washing over the album's more subdued moments like a black wave. Those eastern-tinged interludes between the crumbling walls of moon-blasted heaviness sprawl waaaaay out, into squalls of wah-destroyed guitar noise and meandering, acid-seared leads, as the vocals are swept up in a weirdly processed, almost vocoder-ized harmonized chant. Yes indeed, this blackened boogie motherfucker is right up there alongside the aforementioned Dopethrone and Sleep's Dopesmoker, a classic slab of modern mammoth psychdoom that's as close to sludge-metal perfection as I've come across, immensely recommended to anyone obsessed with the slowest and lowest strains of doom metal, and still one of my all-time favorite doom albums.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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