SINGLE REVIEW: SLOW DEATH LIGHTS – Broken Spirit Desert Nightmare

SINGLE REVIEW: SLOW DEATH LIGHTS – Broken Spirit Desert Nightmare
Independent
2015
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7/10

When Brant Bjork turns his hand to something, you have certain expectations that the sound will be a hot fuzzed out wind blowing across the parched desert, and Slow Death Lights’ two track single Broken Spirit Desert Nightmare does not disappoint.

The foursome throw down a Sabbathy sound that Bjork’s production helps leap from the speakers with a real analogue fizz. Track one is the grooving Dirty Chores, while track two, Watermill, seems to be all about the mysterious woman on the cover of the first Black Sabbath album. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it’s a really cool song regardless.

Broken Spirit Desert Nightmare is an excellent one-two punch of doomy fuzz metal that’ll undoubtedly appeal to anyone who loves them a bit of early Sabbath, Kyuss or similar.

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