Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday


"Following up last year's Burning Off Impurities and their recent Take Refuge In Clean Living EP, Grails return with their darkest, heaviest record yet. Written and recorded over the last 18 months, Doomsdayer's Holiday delivers on the promises made by their previous albums, taking equal pride in smoky psychedelics and mountain-ascending riffs. With Faust, Earth and Sunn O))) collaborators acting as engineers - not to mention drummer Emil Amos having recently become the new other half of Om - Grails' avant-metal leanings are evident as always. But Doomsdayer's Holiday finds their already-broad palette continually expanding with 70s European film noir and cosmic free jazz explorations complimenting the Middle Eastern psychedelic folk-metal the group is already known for. After a wildly prolific three-year streak that saw the band ceaselessly pushing forward, Grails have finally made an album that pushes back." - their label
Download: zshare
Label/Date: Temporary Residence, 2008
Genre: experimental, psychedelic
From: Portland, Oregon
LIYL: Priestbird, Ghost, Bardo Pond, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel
Website : Myspace

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