The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell

Buckethead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Disembodied Records
• ASIN: B0001L3LH2
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,319 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Descent of the Damned

2. Spokes for the Wheel of Torment

3. Arc of the Pendulum

4. Fountains of the Forgotten

5. The Treeman

6. Pylegathon

7. Traveling Morgue

8. One Tooth of the Time Train

9. Bedlam's Bluff

10. Beaten With Sledges

11. Woods of Suicides

12. Yellowed Hide

13. Moths to Flame

14. The Ravines of Falsehood

15. The Black Forest

16. Haven of Black Tar Pitch

17. The Escape Wheel

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hmm, October 30, 2004

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Anglobotomy (Las Vegas, Nv United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (Audio CD)

This album is definitely better than Bucketheadland 2. It's chock-full of powerful, funky metal. With the sort of double bass drumming on this album I don't mind a lot of it being drum machine. I'm in it for the guitar and the grooves. Sometimes this album is a little scattered and suffers from a sort of easily distractedness on the part of Bucket, but its solid Bucket thrashing his bucket off. If you liked Population Override and Electric Tears, be warned this is nothing like those albums. There seems to be three types of Bucket albums, hard serious albums (cuckoo), melodic slow albums (Tears), and silly annoying albums (BHL2). This one is worth buying.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!!, March 11, 2006

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prodigal eyelid (Miami) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (Audio CD)

Buckethead has released an awesome album in "The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell." This is a very unique album in that so many different styles are represented on this album from metal, to funk, blues, etc.. Buckethead is an extremely gifted guitar player and posesses great technical ability. He is right up there with today's virtuosos (i.e. John Petrucci) and can shred with the best of them, but what I love about Buckethead is that he chooses to explore and experiment with the guitar rather than getting caught up in one category, whether it be mindless shred (which can be great), releasing the same album every year, (cough, Malmsteen) or whatever.

If you are a fan of unique guitar playing or great guitar playing for that matter, by all means pick up this album. Buckethead is truly a refreshing guitarist who is not afraid to mix it up on this album.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SCIENCE METAL, March 1, 2005

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Sonic Professor "music monk" (new york city) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (Audio CD)

ok....now i'm a HUGE fan of GUITAR MUSIC........from bumblefoot...to mattias..to greg howe...to shawn lane...etc...you get my drift for those who truely know...now there's many people that concider this to be "THE HEAVY METAL ALBUM"...OR .."MATH METAL..(spastic ink, etc..)".........i have one thing to say.....this album is so ahead of it's time you wont realize it till you truely analyze everything you've listened to down to it's molecular structure...this my friends..... is "SCIENCE METAL"...YES...science....i dont hear anything metal about this album...yes it's hardcore...but not heavy metal...dont get this twisted..this is genious...pure genious..the word genious get's thrown around alot ...but you have to be very very cautious and really think about that word and who you give that title to......this is GENIOUS.....

SCIENCE METAL....yes...that's what this is.. the new age has begun... accept it..free yourselves of all misconceptions..