Crom : Cocaine Wars

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THE COCAINE WARS 1974-1989

Earthride : Vampire Circus

The bitterest doom.

Earthride look and sound like they've been boozing in seedy bars since long before I was born, and as though their will to live departed not long after. When the singer snarls out 'depressed person, last cigarette' on dirtnap, it's just got verisimilitude most bands can't bring.

The music is fuzzy without being warm; de-tuned slabs of dull distortion which pound and plod along at mid-paced tempos beneath the ragged, whiskey cured vox. But this isn't tuneless sludge; it's nasty, low-end, degenerate rock'n'roll. Singer Dave Sherman definitely has some Lemmy to him and it's all held together by raw but catchy riffs, hooks and choruses.

Music to drink strong spirits in excess to.

Favorite tracks: 2,3,4


Vampire Circus

Crom!

First off, let's get one thing clear: Conan the Barbarian is a great movie, not least because it contains moments like this:

Schwarzenegger is at the height of his powers in the role he was born to play [except for Predator and Total Recall everything since has been superfluous], the script is by Oliver Stone, and Basil Pouledouis's soundtrack is excellent:





Conan The Barbarian OST (Basil Poledouris)

Beyond Conan's cinematic triumph, the original books by Robert Howard rank as some of the most important works of early fantastic literature, and the comics by Barry Windsor-Smith are classics in their own right.



From this proud tradition come Crom, and Hot Sumerian Nights, an album-length tribute to metal, punk & the great barbarian, a collage of sometimes borrowed riffs + barrages of thrash, grind and sludge weaved into very extensive samples from the movie,its soundtrack and am radio.

Needless to say I enjoyed the album, and you should too:



Crom : Hot Sumerian Nights

This came out on CD a while back but only just became available on vinyl, so swing over to their myspace to pick it up or for one of their sweet, sweet Crom shirts.