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Thieving From the House of God

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When I picked up Thieving from the House of God, I was expecting the typical stoner rock sound I knew from the first few Orange Goblin albums. What I ended up getting was better than that.

While at its core Thieving is still stoner rock, it's got a straight hard rock vibe blended into it, vaguely like a more bluesy Motorhead. It's far more up tempo than anything I had heard from them before. Like their past albums though, it focuses on straight up catchy riffs, which are something Orange Goblin can churn out with the best of them.

Thieving has a good deal of variety to it. Songs range from the borderline punk "Tosh Lines" (which is all of about 1 minute long) to the Motorhead-ish "Some You Win, Some You Lose", the vaguely Southern rock influenced "You're Not the One (Who Can Save Rock n' Roll)" (including some female vocals) to the heavy pure stoner rock riffs of "Round Up The Horses." The slight style changes between songs keeps Thieving interesting throughout.

It's just an enjoyable album all the way through, and really I suggest that anyone looking for a good hard rock album give it a listen. You will bang your head to this one, and you'll enjoy it.

I can't put into words how crushingly heavy this album is. From start to finish, it rocks!

This is a definate departure form the stoner-rock sound that Goblin cultivated, but it still stands alone in its own right.

It's fast. It's groovy. It stomps all over your aural capacity.

For good tracks, check out "some you win, some you lose," "black egg," "if it ain't borke, break it" and "crown of locusts." This should appeal to anyone that likes music along the lines of Pantera or anything with a little weight to it. Once again, be prepared for riffage.

Totally awesome...

Orange Goblins continues there mix of southern, thrash and stoner rock on their latest greatest cd. "Black Egg" scales new heights for the band, including an outstanding background gospel vocal performance that's reminiscent of the Stone's "Gimme Shelter, however much much harder and faster. Truley one of the few transcending moments in rock music thus far the 21 century. This is state of the art Goblin...better than "Time Traveling Blues."

I have to say that im not a huge fan of Orange Goblin. I liked very much <<Time Travelling Blues>> and i liked their first one album. I find the 3rd album just ok as this one and i didnt like at all their previous album. In this album they continue to play stoner rock in the steps of Spiritual Beggars. Unfortunately they did not make it so well. There areno memorable moments and this is definitely not an amazing <<5 star album>> thet you will love and want to listen many times. Its simply just another rock album. Only for collectors. Only if you liked very very much their previous works then you will like this too.

This album is actually better than time travelling blues. For those of you who are fans of Orange Goblin than you know how good that is.

...what a shame. The Goblins have lost their edge with this one. I'm a HUGE fan of their previous efforts, but this one just lost me. They've done away with their slower, more doomy/spacey stuff and replaced it with faster-paced "punk-metal", for lack of a better term. The lyrics have lost any originality and they sound more like Metallica now than anyone else.With this album, they've given up their crown...