IIIrd Gatekeeper
SKULLFLOWER
IIIrd Gatekeeper
Boomkat Product Review:
Skullflower’s band-mind ’92 noise rock salvo for JK Broadrick’s label is back to infect the water table on its 30th anniversary repress, newly augmented with a 2nd disc of extra, unreleased cuts from the same recording sessions - prime, atonal gnarl for disciples of Godflesh, Broken Flag, Fushitsusha
Originally recorded in London, 1991, and released on Justin “Godflesh” Broadrick’s hEADdIRt in ’92, ‘IIIrd Gatekeeper’ marks the point when Matthew Bower (guitar), Anthony Di Franco (bass) and Stuart Dennison’s (drums, vocals) Skullflower were three years deep into their thing, and hailed among the world’s heaviest guitar bands. Issued against a backdrop of peak grunge, the album sees Skullflower continue to take their cues from the UK’s noise and power-electronics scene with little compromise, resulting a genre-defining, cataclysmic event whose nuclear fallout would feed forward to inspire everyone from Godflesh to Khanate, Sunn 0))) and Blackhaine.
Surely worthy of Sunn 0)))’s maxim, that “maximum volume yields maximum effect”, this is one to be played a neighbour-harassing levels. On the LP’s original eight tracks they lay waste to sears and amps with the sheer, overdriven, sludgy force of ‘Can You Feel It?’, the thrumming motorik momentum of ‘Black Rabbit’ and ‘Godzilla’, or Di Franco’s thunderous bass on ‘Larks Tongue’, and the rope-end howl of ’Spoiler’. The bonus disc now gets behind the studio curtain to spy them resembling O.L.D. on the synth streaked alien noise rock of ‘Stars and Bars’, beside the elephantine swagger of ‘Wand’, and a lurching ’Evil Twin’ that should all be enough to warrant old heads updating battered copies, and likely to sever the heads of new lambs to their slaughter.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Skullflower’s band-mind ’92 noise rock salvo for JK Broadrick’s label is back to infect the water table on its 30th anniversary repress, newly augmented with a 2nd disc of extra, unreleased cuts from the same recording sessions - prime, atonal gnarl for disciples of Godflesh, Broken Flag, Fushitsusha
Originally recorded in London, 1991, and released on Justin “Godflesh” Broadrick’s hEADdIRt in ’92, ‘IIIrd Gatekeeper’ marks the point when Matthew Bower (guitar), Anthony Di Franco (bass) and Stuart Dennison’s (drums, vocals) Skullflower were three years deep into their thing, and hailed among the world’s heaviest guitar bands. Issued against a backdrop of peak grunge, the album sees Skullflower continue to take their cues from the UK’s noise and power-electronics scene with little compromise, resulting a genre-defining, cataclysmic event whose nuclear fallout would feed forward to inspire everyone from Godflesh to Khanate, Sunn 0))) and Blackhaine.
Surely worthy of Sunn 0)))’s maxim, that “maximum volume yields maximum effect”, this is one to be played a neighbour-harassing levels. On the LP’s original eight tracks they lay waste to sears and amps with the sheer, overdriven, sludgy force of ‘Can You Feel It?’, the thrumming motorik momentum of ‘Black Rabbit’ and ‘Godzilla’, or Di Franco’s thunderous bass on ‘Larks Tongue’, and the rope-end howl of ’Spoiler’. The bonus disc now gets behind the studio curtain to spy them resembling O.L.D. on the synth streaked alien noise rock of ‘Stars and Bars’, beside the elephantine swagger of ‘Wand’, and a lurching ’Evil Twin’ that should all be enough to warrant old heads updating battered copies, and likely to sever the heads of new lambs to their slaughter.
Boomkat Product Review:
Skullflower’s band-mind ’92 noise rock salvo for JK Broadrick’s label is back to infect the water table on its 30th anniversary repress, newly augmented with a 2nd disc of extra, unreleased cuts from the same recording sessions - prime, atonal gnarl for disciples of Godflesh, Broken Flag, Fushitsusha
Originally recorded in London, 1991, and released on Justin “Godflesh” Broadrick’s hEADdIRt in ’92, ‘IIIrd Gatekeeper’ marks the point when Matthew Bower (guitar), Anthony Di Franco (bass) and Stuart Dennison’s (drums, vocals) Skullflower were three years deep into their thing, and hailed among the world’s heaviest guitar bands. Issued against a backdrop of peak grunge, the album sees Skullflower continue to take their cues from the UK’s noise and power-electronics scene with little compromise, resulting a genre-defining, cataclysmic event whose nuclear fallout would feed forward to inspire everyone from Godflesh to Khanate, Sunn 0))) and Blackhaine.
Surely worthy of Sunn 0)))’s maxim, that “maximum volume yields maximum effect”, this is one to be played a neighbour-harassing levels. On the LP’s original eight tracks they lay waste to sears and amps with the sheer, overdriven, sludgy force of ‘Can You Feel It?’, the thrumming motorik momentum of ‘Black Rabbit’ and ‘Godzilla’, or Di Franco’s thunderous bass on ‘Larks Tongue’, and the rope-end howl of ’Spoiler’. The bonus disc now gets behind the studio curtain to spy them resembling O.L.D. on the synth streaked alien noise rock of ‘Stars and Bars’, beside the elephantine swagger of ‘Wand’, and a lurching ’Evil Twin’ that should all be enough to warrant old heads updating battered copies, and likely to sever the heads of new lambs to their slaughter.
Boomkat Product Review:
Skullflower’s band-mind ’92 noise rock salvo for JK Broadrick’s label is back to infect the water table on its 30th anniversary repress, newly augmented with a 2nd disc of extra, unreleased cuts from the same recording sessions - prime, atonal gnarl for disciples of Godflesh, Broken Flag, Fushitsusha
Originally recorded in London, 1991, and released on Justin “Godflesh” Broadrick’s hEADdIRt in ’92, ‘IIIrd Gatekeeper’ marks the point when Matthew Bower (guitar), Anthony Di Franco (bass) and Stuart Dennison’s (drums, vocals) Skullflower were three years deep into their thing, and hailed among the world’s heaviest guitar bands. Issued against a backdrop of peak grunge, the album sees Skullflower continue to take their cues from the UK’s noise and power-electronics scene with little compromise, resulting a genre-defining, cataclysmic event whose nuclear fallout would feed forward to inspire everyone from Godflesh to Khanate, Sunn 0))) and Blackhaine.
Surely worthy of Sunn 0)))’s maxim, that “maximum volume yields maximum effect”, this is one to be played a neighbour-harassing levels. On the LP’s original eight tracks they lay waste to sears and amps with the sheer, overdriven, sludgy force of ‘Can You Feel It?’, the thrumming motorik momentum of ‘Black Rabbit’ and ‘Godzilla’, or Di Franco’s thunderous bass on ‘Larks Tongue’, and the rope-end howl of ’Spoiler’. The bonus disc now gets behind the studio curtain to spy them resembling O.L.D. on the synth streaked alien noise rock of ‘Stars and Bars’, beside the elephantine swagger of ‘Wand’, and a lurching ’Evil Twin’ that should all be enough to warrant old heads updating battered copies, and likely to sever the heads of new lambs to their slaughter.
Double vinyl re-issue in heavy matt non-scratch laminated gatefold sleeve. Expanded edition - includes extra and unreleased tracks taken from the recording sessions.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Skullflower’s band-mind ’92 noise rock salvo for JK Broadrick’s label is back to infect the water table on its 30th anniversary repress, newly augmented with a 2nd disc of extra, unreleased cuts from the same recording sessions - prime, atonal gnarl for disciples of Godflesh, Broken Flag, Fushitsusha
Originally recorded in London, 1991, and released on Justin “Godflesh” Broadrick’s hEADdIRt in ’92, ‘IIIrd Gatekeeper’ marks the point when Matthew Bower (guitar), Anthony Di Franco (bass) and Stuart Dennison’s (drums, vocals) Skullflower were three years deep into their thing, and hailed among the world’s heaviest guitar bands. Issued against a backdrop of peak grunge, the album sees Skullflower continue to take their cues from the UK’s noise and power-electronics scene with little compromise, resulting a genre-defining, cataclysmic event whose nuclear fallout would feed forward to inspire everyone from Godflesh to Khanate, Sunn 0))) and Blackhaine.
Surely worthy of Sunn 0)))’s maxim, that “maximum volume yields maximum effect”, this is one to be played a neighbour-harassing levels. On the LP’s original eight tracks they lay waste to sears and amps with the sheer, overdriven, sludgy force of ‘Can You Feel It?’, the thrumming motorik momentum of ‘Black Rabbit’ and ‘Godzilla’, or Di Franco’s thunderous bass on ‘Larks Tongue’, and the rope-end howl of ’Spoiler’. The bonus disc now gets behind the studio curtain to spy them resembling O.L.D. on the synth streaked alien noise rock of ‘Stars and Bars’, beside the elephantine swagger of ‘Wand’, and a lurching ’Evil Twin’ that should all be enough to warrant old heads updating battered copies, and likely to sever the heads of new lambs to their slaughter.
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