Customer Reviews

Closer To Doom

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Like your music with big growling Hammond Organs, spooky Mellotrons, crunchy Black Sabbath-esque guitar riffing, Beatle-esque melody and some of the funniest, goofiest spookhouse/sci-fi lyrics this side of Uriah Heep or Atomic Rooster? Well folks, Bigelf is your band!

This takes me back to a wonderful time when musicianship, fun and crankin' rock riffage partied together in grand style. No sequencers or Pro-Tools jive here, just real good, honest crank it up and play abandon! Keyboardist Damon Fox just makes those vintage ivories come to life, Henry HM Jones definitely gets his crunch on with his trusty red SG and old Orange amps as the rhythm section kicks it along in a manner that would do Sabbath and Purple proud.

THis DESERVES to be cranked to 11 and enjoyed!

Hello! It's time for the people of America to wake up! ( And the rest of the world ) This is a good band!

I've been a fan of the early seventies hard rock music for many years like; Led zep, Cactus, Mountain etc, but I like a lot of the later music as well. I've seen this band live once, and I had never heard of them before.It was at a rock festival here in Sweden , and it took just a couple of songs to realise that this is realy something. If you like bands like Uriah heep, Deep Purple ,Sabbath and Beatles, ( or if you just like good rock music and not the ordinary mainstream...) if that is the case, buy this CD.

Bigelf has filled up an empty hole after the bands I mentioned before, refreshing! Their second album , "Money machine", is as good as "Closer to doom" Buy it people! Don't forget, it's important to support a band like this, so they can continue to record good music.

More people need to hear this unbelievable album! Either version (the domestic pressing contains six tracks, the Euro reissue adds three, I believe). And don't be fooled by the title, this is no stoner/doom album - or, at least, no ORDINARY one.What exactly does Big Elf (who needed to sit down and think up a new name, by the way) bring to the table? Power. No, wait, make that 'titanic, massive, earth-shaking, cry-for-your-mommy POWER'. They start out with a sensibility hard-wired into the heart of 1970, reflected in their songwriting which features Beatles melodies and chord changes, Atomic Rooster production and vocals, and a whooshing, mega-monstrous fat Hammond sound that whiplashes your head back in a Jon Lord/Ken Hensley manner. Yow. Best of all, under the heavy armor these tracks are actually catchy and clever and betray a lot of pop savvy. But don't think 'pop', 'metal' or any other label in terms of any set of references past 1972. (There's an awful lot of retro-sounding stuff these days, but, really and truly, you'll be astonished by how vintage this sounds. It's more than just the Hammonds and Leslie cabinets, it's the whole vibe here - uncanny.) One duff track, 'Salvation', precludes the full five stars, but the remainder, particularly 'Change' (which sounds like the heaviest 'White Album' outtake ever), and 'Frustration' (so massively powerful you'll swear Nixon's still President) will blast you back 30-odd years if you were there, or give you an uncut dose of what it WAS like if you weren't. Kudos to Sylvia Massey as well for an incredible production job in light of this record's low-budget indie status.

Wow. These guys are the more psychedelic of the retro rockers out there today, but that makes 'em different. I'm liking this music alot. 'Don't you worry about tomorrow, when you're livin' in today'. Yep, you just know when you hear the first song that this is gonna be a cool ride.

This is a truly awesome album. Very unique sound, awesome lyrics and just pure musicianship.

I'm not sure why, but I feel almost angry at Bigelf for making this kind of music. And by "this kind of music", I'm talking about how every song sounds like a swirling psychedelic ocean of circus music with Ozzy or Jeff Lynne at the mic. That doesn't sound like a bad thing at all, but the way Bigelf does it really annoys my earballs. I dunno...I expected better. That's what I'm really tryin' to say here.