APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE – Last Sunrise CD
Profound Lore
Pass the bong I think I’m Wino or Rod Evans from CAPTAIN BEYOND, whoever floats you off the couch first. Actually this is former GATES OF SLUMBER dude, Chuck Brown, with his band’s sophomore effort. He wasn’t getting enough chances to write and record with his old bandmates so with APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE he gets to spread his wings. I swear I need a beer because he really sounds like Rod Evans, even on the MISFITS covers. Hey remember Rod Evans was DEEP PURPLE’s first singer too. Oh but more on that later and it’s only 10 AM on a Sunday morning, I’m a fuckin Doom-aholic. I’ll probably be drunk by the time this review is written. Doom releases usually take a few hours to review ya know because of all those long songs. I never heard this band’s 2008 debut, Sincerest Misery, but what a great title for a Doom release huh?
The opening cut and title song wasn’t so impressive since it was a simple instro funeral dirge. When the second cut, “Acknowledging the Demon” kicked in then it was time to pop open a beer. Some of you readers might choose another type of substance to ingest. Yeah what a way to recycle old TROUBLE and PENTAGRAM riffs which are actually recycled SABBATH riffs but by this time in the game who gives a shit anymore. You think Jim Bob in the trailer park, who still turns up the volume on his boom box when “Paranoid” is playing on the local FM radio station, cares about Doom Metal? Hell he still thinks Ozzy is in SABBATH and whatever you do don’t tell him there’s a black president.
Actually there’s really only one long slow number on here, “Letting Go of the Wheel”, which is a nine plus minute psych out suitable for breaking out the black lite posters. The rest of this CD is strobe lite. If you don’t have one of those just keep flicking the light switch on the wall until your Al Gore energy saving screw shape light bulb explodes into a fiery ball of mercury and glass particles. By the time the Hazmat crew gets to your place will be the exact time when the big time Rod Evans sounding “Coldest Love” ends and the bonus cuts kick in. Last Sunrise comes in two versions. The North American release on Profound Lore contains bonus covers; “Streetside” by OBSESSED, “Astro Zombies” by the earlier mentioned MISFITS and “Mary and Child” by BORN AGAINST an old New York City Hardcore band I once saw. The European version, out on Eyes Like Snow Records, has them covering THIN LIZZY’s “Emerald” albeit a slightly slower version but still with the duel guitar lick ending. Also there’s another MISFIT cover, “Where Eagles Dare” and finally CELTIC FROST’s “Procreation of the Wicked”. I’ve got all six bonus tracks on my copy, go figure, and a great release to boot despite the lackluster CD cover.
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