Artist: Monster Magnet
Title: “Tab” (remaster)
Label: SPV Records
Release Date: 4/4/2006
Genre: Stoner Rock
Rating: 3.5/5
Presenting the listener with a twisted, Psychedelic and sonic melee that is not for the timid comes from Monster Magnet with their remastered version of “Tab”. The albums epic track of “Tab” runs a full 32 minutes and its full drug referenced lyrics and spoken word, presented in a mass of trippy sludgy, delay laden, soundscapes that swirl over a slow grinding, hypnotic, and trance like groove. There is feedback infused wah-wah, and tortured guitars that punctuate the sonic almost nightmarish onslaught. Some listeners might find this plodding and repetitive, or an unending drone while others may find it an epic work of controlled chaos and drug soaked brilliance.
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Artist: Monster Magnet
Title: “Spine Of God” (remaster)
Label: SPV Records
Release Date: 4/4/2006
Genre: Hard Rock/Stoner
Rating: 3/5
A remastered re-release of Monster Magnets 2nd disk (but first full-length album) comes to life thanks to the folks at SPV Records. I have to admit that I like this sludgy, brutal, trippy brand of Stoner Rock. Why? Well I am not sure but maybe because this record has attitude with a bit of unpredictability and raunchy guitars. Spine Of God does not have the higher production values that would eventually be found on God Says No but that are par for the course on earlier work. GSN also includes a harder rocking second version of the track “Medicine” and the stellar track “Melt” (which mentions artist and supreme comic talent Jack Kirby in its lyrics). It’s my hope that SPV gets around to remastering this one as it is some of Magnet’s best work in my humble opinion.
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