Jack Frost - Gloom Rock Asylum
Holy fuck. It’s not too often that a band has two great albums in a row, much less two flawless ones. Actually, to be really fair, I should point out that this must be somehow beyond flawless, since it is clearly superior to their last album, Glow Dying Sun, and you might recall that album receiving a 10. To say I’m impressed would be an understatement. The Gloom masters haven’t made any radical departure from their perfection, but instead tweaked the production into an even more soul-crushing ocean of suffocating dismal thickness, and threw in some double bass just for me. Plus they actually improved the vocal drone, making it even more devoid of hope and overflowing with sorrow than ever before. God damn! Check out the tracks “You Are the Cancer” and their cover of “California Dreamin’” to see what the soundtrack is to the extreme depths of depression. On its own, Glow Dying Sun was and is perfection, but Gloom Rock Asylum takes it all just a little further, a little heavier, a little more depressing and suicidal. This is a 10 if there ever was one, but I’m almost hesitant to give it the rating it deserves, just in case Jack Frost once again figures out how to improve on perfection on their next release. On a side note, someone find me this band’s first two CDs, and then name your price, okay? I’ll get you hookers, drugs, comic books, even cash!
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