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