Album Review: Goya/Wounded Giant Split
“The Gods are hungry; it has begun.”
Lyrics from Dystheist by Wounded Giant
Set for release via STB Records on January 3rd is a new split from Phoenix’s doom giants Goya, and Seattle-based psychedelic warriors, Wounded Giant. Three songs strong, this is some of the sludgiest shit to find its way to my ears in a while. Goya tears through side A with No Place in the Sky; a thirteen-minute leviathan that conjures up vibes similar to the atmospheric messages from doom purveyors Windhand and their epic 2012 self-titled release. And while one song is hardly an oeuvre, we can look forward to more stoner grooves from Goya in early 2015 with a new three-song EP called Satan’s Fire on January 5th. You can listen the EP now over at the band’s bong-friendly Bandcamp page. For now we will all have wait a few more weeks to get a contact high from No Place in the Sky. I promise you it will be worth the wait.
Wounded Giant contributes the other two skull-punching tracks to the split (which was specifically mastered for a vinyl pressing), The Room of the Torch and an anthem that should only be listened to with your best battle jacket on, Dystheist. Wounded Giant has not so quietly been causing visceral disturbances in the crust of the Earth known as the Pacific Northwest for a quite a few years now, and with all due respect their previously released ooze, it’s quite possible that these two tracks might be some of the best stuff they’ve done to date. And that’s saying something as the gritty, hairy trio worked with Seattle music scene kingpins Tad Doyle and Jack Endino while recording their dirt chugging 2013 release, Lightning Medicine.
Another plus for this big evil things come in little packages release is the trippy snake worshiping artwork by Minneapolis artist David Paul Seymour. You’ve likely seen images previously conjured by Seymour for other bands like Red Fang, Agnostic Front, and Tokyo’s most dangerous export, Church of Misery. So be sure to save some of your skunk-bud money and don’t miss out on this limited Vinyl Pressing of only 430 with four different options described below. See you on the other side doom lovers.
Die Hard Edition – 80 pieces
Band Only – 100 pieces
OBI Series – 100 pieces
Not So Standard Edition – 150 pieces
*many thanks to Steve over at STB records for the early listen!*
Album Review: Goya/Wounded Giant Split
“The Gods are hungry; it has begun.” Lyrics from Dystheist by Wounded Giant Set for rele