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• Owing a little to Scott Walker, Diamanda Galás and occult ritual music like Coil’s ‘How To Destroy Angels’, these three long tracks all open with ornate multi-tracked madrigals that explode into brutal doom-laden power-trio riffing. Rose Kemp growls, shrieks and howls throughout, like a furious witch hexing her tormentors, demonstrating extraordinary range and control. ’Blood Run Red’ tests patience further by adding tricky prog time signatures and a very big gong. If you prize originality, the 16-minute ‘Lead Coffin’ delivers, nailing butterfly-fragile folk melodies to seething amplifier hum and then burning them to cinders in a firestorm. Rose’s sheer vocal power and bloody-minded commitment to her muse is admirable, but it’s quite exhausting listening. (Kid Pensioner)
Copyright Kid Pensioner 2011
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