Album reviews:
"As the title of track three on this album so succinctly puts it.Fucking Hell!!!.
You want stoner, doom, sludge, punk, thrash, noise.you got it. This is a maelstrom of riffage from start to finish. There is no point in trying a track by track run down here as each song seems to be crammed with more riffs and ideas than the first four Black Sabbath albums put together!!! The Lords seem to operate a use once then destroy attitude to song writing. Why revisit a riff when you have another great one waiting in the wings? Each track bins the verse/chorus ethos and heads on a linear path that flows from section to section seamlessly. Melodic refrains such as the "verse" section on "The Old 'Reflection InThe Bathroom Mirror' Trick" give way to a punked up thrash charge which may in turn plunge into a sub Electric Wizard with a flick-knife style doom and back again with scant respect for traditional structures. On paper it sounds like a nightmarish mess but on plastic this is a work of borderline genius.
Over the course of these ten tracks no song outstays its welcome. Given the number of ideas crammed into each song they remain succinct and focussed all wrapped up in a beautifully scuzzy, crusty production that sees the guitars buzz and the drums clatter in all the right places.
If you want the history of noisy rock and roll all bound up into one awesome album.and in some cases on here in one song.then do yourselves the biggest favour and check these guys out."
Review by Ollie, at The Sleeping Shaman webzine. (thesleepingshaman.com)
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".If it was a deliberate attempt at lo-fi retro, it hasn't paid off.
.Sadly, this recording makes it nearly impossible to appreciate these grooves at their knee-shaking best.
.the record grows tiresome early on."
Review by Anonymous at The Skinny. (full review at www.theskinny.co.uk)
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".LOB has come up with a tricky, layered disc which mashes up a great deal of different styles. Riffs are drenched in Sabbath and Electric Wizard with a great emphasis on groove. Sometimes fast, stoned and churning and other times trudging through the mud and muck of sheer blood curdling sludge; there’s a great deal of variety here in the tempos. Lively bass playing further shakes things up as there’s a lot of chops on display with a thick tone and nimble picking giving a rock solid backbone to both the guitars and drumming.It is always good to hear a young band able to cross reference various styles on a debut album while still managing to make the damn thing sound coherent in the process. Not every band out there can accomplish that and LOB are doing it and doing it well on album 1.
LOB have crafted a worthy debut album of varying styles and colors. Fans of everything from The Melvins to Torche to Helmet to Electric Wizard to Eyehategod would do well in giving this one a check. There’s the pop, groove and melodic tinges of vintage Helmet (Betty era perhaps) and Torche with a teeth gnashing dose of hate n’ rage to make them far more menacing than friendly. It’s like they invite you into their home to chill out and relax then slit your throat whenever you bend down to reach for your beer. One warning, the production is definitely in the pink but sounds clear as day if you crank it. The lo-fi recording lends a certain degree of charm to everything else they’ve got going on."
Jay Snyder - Hellride Music (full review at www.hellridemusic.com)
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"Musically, Lords of Bastard trudge through that same rough-as-fuck territory as Tiger B. Smith and B. Sabbath occupied (imagine the latter during MASTER OF REALITY at its most ‘Into the Void’), but (and it’s a big hairy ‘but’) these Bastards clearly smoke more pot than most and allow it to cloud, nay, fog their already very woolly vision. Magnificent. Again like Harvey Milk, it’s all achieved in a highly post-SLEEP’S HOLY MOUNTAIN manner that occasionally conjures up memories of pure 1970 dark prog of the English variety."
J cope - Head Hertage. (full review at www.headheritage.co.uk)
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"Recommendable for marijuana users"
Slow Burn Webzine (full review at www.slowburn.cl)
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"Our favourite Scottish bastards, sorry. lords are back! This time with their self-titled debut album. Monster slug-rock 70s Sabbath style.
.Lords of Bastard is a steamroller. No make-up, no fashion, no fake posing -- just straight forward rawk rolling slowly, mostly."
H. Oppøyen, Luna Kafe (full review at www.lunakafe.com)
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"Bloody hell, i nearly shit myself!"
Jay-Z
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"Nine tracks of impressive and sometimes oppressive din, with vocals buried deep in the mix, somewhere alongside the drums, under layers of bass and six string thrumming. Sometimes the whole machine gets stuck on a single note or feedback pulse, and at others it careers along like an out of control pantechnicon, Gloriously dumb-and it knows it."
The Herald.
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"Some people just know how to say the right things and this trio of Edinburgh bams got two stars for the top name and the sticker on the CD case alone declaring ‘ … if you like albums, then this might be for you …’ Maybe ‘if you like The Melvins, The Stupids and Thin Lizzy…’ might have been more truthful but perhaps not as genial and inclusive.
But quality packaging aside, Lords of Bastard’s unholy rumble is equal parts bludgeon and groove, swollen riffs swaying like a hairy mammoth’s enormous scrotal sack. They allow their guitars to twist, turn, build without too much extraneous and potentially off-putting vocal gymnastics and crunch through a debut set that is brutal, silly and deeply satisfying, often in the same song. This might seem two-dimensional by some people’s dim standards, and the production is deliberately primitive but that’s sort of the point, no? A heraldic success."
The List (full review at www.list.co.uk)
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Also there was a review in Kerrang!! Can't remember exactly what it said, but it was mildly complimentary and gave us 3 "K's" out of 5.
So there.
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