Orange Goblin, Back from the Abyss: This Weight to Bear

Orange Goblin, previously Our Haunted Kingdom, are a heavy metal band from the United Kingdom that formed in 1995. The band’s lineup currently consists of singer Ben Ward, guitarist Joe Hoare, bassist Martyn Millard, and drummer Chris Turner.

Orange Goblin was originally formed in 1995 under the name Our Haunted Kingdom.^[1] They released a split 7″ with Electric Wizardin 1996 on Rise Above Records before adopting the moniker Orange Goblin.^[1] The band’s first three albums were stoner/doom. On 2002’s Coup de Grace they began to add punk, doom metal, and other influences to their sound.

Their first five releases were issued by Rise Above Records. Rhythm guitarist Pete O’Malley left the band in 2004 to pursue a career as an artist. On 16 December 2005 the band celebrated its tenth anniversary with a concert at the Underworld club in Camden also featuring Scissorfight and Blood Island Raiders. Their 2007 album, Healing Through Fire was released on Mayan/Sanctuary Records. On 3 September 2008 the band announced that they had signed with Candlelight Records and were working on material for a new album with a September 2009 release date in mind.^[2][3] It was then announced in May 2009 that „Songwriting for the new album is ongoing but looks very promising with the skeleton of four or five new songs already in place. Two rough working titles for the new songs include Red Tide Rising and The Bishop’s Wolf„.^[4] The band had earlier announced that it had postponed the recording sessions for the new album due to „unforeseen circumstances” and apologised to the fans assuring them that „it will be worth the wait”. Twelve months later, in March 2010, a statement was issued by the band stating that while they were not necessarily never going to release a new album ever again, the prospective forthcoming album was to be postponed for the foreseeable future.^[5] The band announced they will be recording new material in August 2011. Once mentioned on Ricky Gervais’ XFM radio show. This recording was indeed completed in September 2011 and is set to be released early in February 2012 under the name of ‘A Eulogy for the Damned’ by Candlelight Records.^[6]

In mid-2010 the band’s back catalog was reissued on Rise Above Records in digipack form. In mid-December 2010 they celebrated their fifteenth anniversary with support coming from British blues-rock band Firebird – featuring previous members of Carcass and Spiritual Beggars – and American doom-rock band Solace culminating in their annual Christmas show in London.

Orange Goblin also performed at the 2011 Maryland Deathfest music festival in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.

1.	Sabbath Hex	04:47	Show lyrics
2.	Übermensch	03:56	Show lyrics
3.	The Devil’s Whip	02:14	Show lyrics
4.	Demon Blues	04:40	Show lyrics
5.	Heavy Lies the Crown	06:18	Show lyrics
6.	Into the Arms of Morpheus	07:06	Show lyrics
7.	Mythical Knives	04:47	Show lyrics
8.	Bloodzilla	04:10	Show lyrics
9.	The Abyss	05:33	Show lyrics
10.	Titan	01:59	instrumental
11.	Blood of Them	05:47	Show lyrics
12.	The Shadow over Innsmouth	02:53	instrumental

Iron & Wine’s Beam and Calexico’s Joey Burns sound heavenly harmonizing with each other in Calexico Iron & Wine- In the Reins

In the Reins is a joint EP by Calexico and Iron & Wine, released by Overcoat Recordings on September 13, 2005. Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam wrote all of the songs, which were recorded by the two bands together at Wavelab Studio in Tucson, Arizona. The album peaked at #135 on the Billboard 200. Both later collaborated on a cover of Bob Dylan’s „Dark Eyes” for the I’m Not There soundtrack, while Calexico’s Joey Burns was featured on Iron & Wine’s third LP, The Shepherd’s Dog.

Why didn’t somebody think of this sooner? It’s not a fair question, but it’s an easy one to ask once you’ve heard the seven-track In the Reins, the first in what, if we’re all very lucky, will be a series of collaborations between Iron & Wine and Calexico.

Iron & Wine’s Beam and Calexico’s Joey Burns sound heavenly harmonizing with each other, especially when guest vocalist Natalie Wyants joins them. Neither is an exceptional vocalist on his own, both occasionally lapsing to a whisper, but those hushed, gently melodic cords singing in unison make magic. Beam is the principle songwriter and vocalist on the album, and he’s written some A material for the record, admirably putting his all into it instead of offering up some throwaway stuff and hoping Calexico can do something with it.

1.	„He Lays in the Reins”	3:43
2.	„Prison on Route 41”	4:10
3.	„A History of Lovers”	3:09
4.	„Red Dust”	3:31
5.	„Sixteen, Maybe Less”	4:49
6.	„Burn That Broken Bed”	5:06
7.	„Dead Man’s Will”	3:13
Total length:		27:41

Personnel

• Sam Beam
• Joey Burns
• John Convertino
• Salvador Duran
• Nick Luca
• Paul Niehaus
• Ryan Roscoe
• Craig Schumacher
• Jacob Valenzuela
• Martin Wenk
• Natalie Wyatts
• Volker Zander

Production

• Craig Schumacher – recording, mixing
• Nick Luca – engineering
• Chris Schultz – engineering

E oare „simplu si greu” sa fii un Implant Pentru Refuz in Romania ?

Acum dupa ce am ascultat ultima ( pardon cea mai noua) productie IPR intrebarea din titlu pare retorica si orice as scrie despre ei e profund subiectiv.

Imi sunt foarte incilcite toate gindurile si sentimentele si ascultarea discului imi provoaca stari peste care am crezut ca am trecut mai demult. Ele, sentimentele, erup din „Interior” te fac sa aluneci intr-o stare de gratie psychedelica in care intrebarea daca e „Simplu si greu” si daca trebuie sa „Rezist” intr-o lume mincata din interior de nepasarea, exemplificata de piesa „Eutro” si pot iesi din nivelul „Sub Zero” intr-un „Soare Deschis” pina la „Apus” pentru a fredona intr-un final plin de speranta piesa „Sidef”.

Si uite asa cea mai „hardcore” trupa din Romania isi transpune muzica in cel mai psychedelic mod posibil. Transpunerea e exacta, interpretata acustica are forta si da dovada ca piesele au fost geniale de la inceput, balasul pieselor parca e mai acut ca niciodata, nu ai sentimentul nicio clipa ca discul este totusi unul live, apluzele fac parte din decorul. acustic al discului, foarte natural.

Din punctul meu de vedere (v-am prevenit de la inceput ca am sa fiu extrem de subiectiv) acest disc ESTE CEA MAI BUNA PRODUCTIE IMPLANT PENTRU REFUZ !

Poate povestea asta nu se scria asa de frumos fara UTU PASCU si toata „familia IPR”,adica cei care au grija ca imaginea trupei sa fie ceea ce e.

Cred „insa” ca acestui album  i-ar fi stat bine sunetul analogic al unui vinyl

Cu admiratie

Emil