Tor

Now I remember hearing this existed for the first time...shock and awe, of course. I am a huge fan of The Oden Sessions, the previous full-length outing by this excellent underground stoner doom band. I loved the combination of groove, overdriven, sludgy guitars, and weed-inflected vocals from mainman (and drummer?!) Tobias Larsson. So, when I saw that this had leaked to the wondrous Internet, I snatched it immediately.

However, what I got was over 80 minutes. As those of you in the know understand, a regular CD can fit only 80 or fewer minutes of audio...so what was the deal here, clocking in at almost 90 minutes? I eventually discovered it was a demo recording, somehow arrived on the Internet by some careless fool and tagged as the new full-length by these Swedestoners.

After months and months, this was FINALLY released on 12th Records and I avoided buying it forever. I recently purchased it and listened to it and, of course, it's every bit as ridiculously heavy as I expected. There's even a harsher, gruffer vocal delivery by the aforementioned Tobias. This album was also recorded in three days...wait, nevermind that, it was also MIXED somewhere within those 3 days. Talk about busy guys...sheesh. Then again, considering these are probably jam sessions put direct to a mixing board, I'm not THAT surprised, but it still seems pretty insane. Anyway, if you get this, you're getting just what you should expect. Fans of Electric Wizard, Ufomammut, etc...take heed, and PRAISE YER FUCKIN OCEAN CHIEF!!