another bongripper want crossed off the list. since i snagged the roadburn festival re-press of their 2008 'hate ashbury' album, i fell in love with this unique, bongripping doomsters. therefore i am always prepared to throw reasonable money at people for their copies of bongripper vinyl i am missing. in this case i actually wanted to spend my hard earned bucks on a discogs copy from the netherlands. it wasn't coming cheap but it was the common going rate and i was ready to bite the bullet.
then there was this incident at work. i had one of my thankfully rare saturday shifts, enjoying a break and was killing some time on the internet. i was searching for some mastodon vinyl pictures, clicked my way through some links and landed at the gates of kozmik artifactz. it is a mailorder from berlin specialised on doom, psyche and everything around sabbath worship. i found myself some other nice doom records, i will soon write about and then came across a new copy of this baby right here.
'satan worshipping doom' was right there for the taking. of course dudes at kozmik artifactz recognised the signs of the times and so the copy was only a bit cheaper than the discogs asking price, but together with only half of the shipping costs it was quite a worthwhile deal to me. kozmik packed the records super safe and i am all around happy with that order. recommended.
'satan worshipping doom' is nothing short of a masterpiece. the whole record is very dynamic, as long as you would call doom metal dynamic, that is. beside those crushing slow doom outbursts, bongripper knows to accompany them with some variety in pace - the very sound that made me adore 'hate ashbury' and of which 'miserable' lacks a tiny bit. check out 'worship' and get sucked in. my copy is part of the fourth pressing coming on coke bottle clear vinyl with some real cool blue smudges. ace artwork too. 250 made. great barrier records. 2010/2015.
