High on Infinity [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Count Raven | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Cyclone Empire
• ASIN: B000B5XUUG
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #293,208 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jen

2. Children´S Holocaust

3. In Honour

4. Madman From Waco

5. Masters Of All Evil

6. Ode To Rebecca

7. High On Infinity

8. An Ordinary Loser

9. Traitor

10. Dance

11. Coming

12. Lost World

13. Cosmos

14. Chrittes Triumph (From "Destruction Of The Void" Chritte On Vocals)

Editorial Reviews

The Swedish doom unit hits their stride with this, their 3rd release! Here we have molten lava doom guitars and an all-round heavier sound than ever. True classic doom metal is what you get on this album. The bands best! Anyone into the more Pentagram, Witchfinder, Vitus, Trouble, Reverend Bizarre, Sabbath school of Doom will go ape on this album. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Count Raven album, July 10, 2006

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the eclectic extrovert (PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High on Infinity (Audio CD)

This album is great, if you like what CR does. Whereas Desctruction of the Void was shameless Ozzy worship (although well done, and still enjoyable), HoI starts to develop more of CR's own sound. It still is easy enough to call it Sab-rock as all straight doom rock is, and the Ozzy vocals are still there (though a bit toned down), but one can find traces of other things as well (like the space-rock and psychedelia of Hawkwind).

Ideologically, these guys are hard to pin down. They seem to come off as a kind of sectarian pseudo-Christian group. They decry abortion and such in Children's Holocaust (sung from the standpoint of an aborted/abused child--interesting twist), but also denounce the FBI's destruction of David KOresh's group (Madman From Waco), while sympathizing with conspiracies about the "Illuminadi." They also have a song which seems to denounce divorce, but if you listen closely, it actually advocates polygamy. Since my understanding is that Koresh actually was part of a pro-polygamy, apocalyptic group which spun off of the Seventh Day Adventists, one almost wonders if the fellas in CR had some kind of connection. Anyway, this makes them all very strange, but also intriguing and original. It may be worth buying to try to figure out lyrically alone. They are Hippie moralists (though selectively so), from Sweden nonetheless, who didn't have the heart to get rid of their old Sabbath albums. Quaint, in an odd kind of way, but they can still put down a rockin' doom groove or three as well.