SKULLFLOWER: Vile Veil; Limited Edition Vinyl LP (2009)
$55.00
Doom, Noise, Drone, Experimental, Guitar, Rock; Vinyl LP (2009) – Ex Used condition
Edition of 300 copies (sold out) with silkscreened cover. Available first for their performance at No Fun Fest in NYC.
The electric guitar is Davies and Bower’s shaking stick of predilection, and from the opening bars of side A, their twin axes are swinging and swirling in full force. A crunching single note like the start of a heavy metal riff gets warped and extended over and over, stretched out over a buzzing ocean of feedback and drone. It’s hard to tell where one guitar starts and the other ends, as is ever the case with Skullflower, they’re both simply locked in sync, screaming as one into the void. The riffs, if they can be called that, are circular, a constantly rotating miasma of saturation and noise whilst an overloaded synthesizer may or may not be anchoring the furore with a swirling drone. The album title suggests falling bombs and resultant chaos, and this motif is picked up later on side A with thumping chords that seem to burst against the seethe of drone like rockets crashing into buildings. On the second side, one of Bower or Davies (or both) transforms his or her guitar into an air-raid siren, great keening notes screaming outwards to warn of imminent danger and death.
