Monster Magnet - Spine of God [Bonus Track]

Primary Artist
Monster Magnet
Album Title
Spine of God [Bonus Track]
Release Date
April 4, 2006 
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Review by Jason Ankeny
The metal album for people who hate metal albums. A glorious and unapologetic celebration of pure indulgence, Spine Of God is the ultimate stoner goof, a brilliant satire of headbanger culture so pitch perfect that it's almost tempting to take it at face value. Bearing the warning "It's a satanic drug thing...you wouldn't understand," the record is a complete mind-f*ck -- the production is positively viscous, a hallucinatory sludge of echo-drenched vocals, bone-rattling drums, and reverbed guitars which seem to stretch on into infinity; frontman Dave Wyndorf is like a shamanic idiot savant floating in a sea of bongwater, growling proclamations like, "If Satan lived in heaven, he'd be me" in the midst of deadpan fantasy freakouts which name-check every teenage metalhead staple, from Led Zep to Playboy to whippets. Read More