REVEREND BIZARRE So Long Suckers (2007)

02 October 2007
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If you're thinking that every new record should be groundbreaking, please skip this longplay (really long - more than 2 hours!) crushing last release by the finish doom masters Reverend Bizarre. Yes, indeed the last one, although a double CD edition, properly jocularly “So Long Suckers”. No need for crying, right... However, if you don't have such pseudo intellectual prejudices, right with the beginning of the 30-minute-long opening track all your fears get blown away. “The Used Dark Forces / Teutonic Witch” is everything you could want from a doom band - a mix of the mandatory steam-rolling gloomy riffs and much faster stoner rock ones plus the deep drums rumbling take you on a long, long profound dramatic and epic trip. If you're thinking doom metal should be in apotheosis of suffering, then “So Long Suckers” is a convenient case of refreshing your ideas and seeing more of the sides of pain. In it's best shape. In difference to many others, Reverend Bizarre are also well up in a 70’s way philosophically, wrapping on their insane, smudgy with daily problems minds. Vocals moderating emotionally yet unduly dramatically is what we can call shallow. Motifs sounding retro with influences from ancestors like Sabbath, Pentagram and even Hawkwind are really hypnotic, getting on you with their mantra effect. Now this is something that gives you a lifting experience. Darkness will fill your souls if you really want it, but first you will satisfy your emotional hunger if you're worshiping the mighty riff. There's enough of variety, e.g. the different from everything else instrumental with eastern title “Kundalini Arisen”, and that really bulging bass guitar during these 2 hours, not getting boring at all. Two hours of slow, epic and classic opuses, smashing riffs and cosmic vibes...
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