Year : 2024
Style : Hard Rock , Stoner Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 112 mb
Bio:
Orange Goblin, previously Our Haunted Kingdom, are a heavy metal band from the United Kingdom that formed in 1995. The band's lineup currently consists of singer Ben Ward, guitarist Joe Hoare, bassist Martyn Millard, and drummer Chris Turner.Orange Goblin was originally formed in 1995 under the name Our Haunted Kingdom.They released a split 7" with Electric Wizard in 1996 on Rise Above Records before adopting the moniker Orange Goblin.The bands first three albums were stoner/doom. On 2002's Coup de Grace they began to add punk, doom metal, and other influences to their sound.Their first five releases were issued by Rise Above Records. Rhythm guitarist Pete O'Malley left the band in 2004 to pursue a career as an artist. On December 16, 2005 the band celebrated its tenth anniversary with a concert at the Underworld club in Camden also featuring Scissorfight and Blood Island Raiders. Their 2007 album, Healing Through Fire was released on Mayan/Sanctuary Records. On September 3, 2008 the band announced that they had signed with Candlelight Records and were working on material for a new album with a September 2009 release date in mind.It was then announced in May 2009 that "Songwriting for the new album is ongoing but looks very promising with the skeleton of four or five new songs already in place. Two rough working titles for the new songs include Red Tide Rising and The Bishop's Wolf".The band had earlier announced that it had postponed the recording sessions for the new album due to "unforeseen circumstances" and apologised to the fans assuring them that "it will be worth the wait". Twelve months later, in March 2010, a statement was issued by the band stating that while they were not necessarily never going to release a new album ever again, the prospective forthcoming album was to be postponed for the foreseeable future.The band announced they will be recording new material in August 2011. Once mentioned on Ricky Gervais' XFM radio show. This recording was indeed completed in September 2011 and is set to be released early in February 2012 under the name of 'A Eulogy for the Damned' by Candlelight Records.In mid-2010 the band's back catalog was reissued on Rise Above Records in digipack form. In mid-December 2010 they celebrated their fifteenth anniversary with support coming from British blues-rock band Firebird - featuring previous members of Carcass and Spiritual Beggars - and American doom-rock band Solace culminating in their annual Christmas show in London.Orange Goblin also performed at the 2011 Maryland Deathfest music festival in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.
Album:
Ben Ward will always a big, burly bastard, but in the run up to Orange Goblin’s 10th album, the legendary frontman decided to ditch the booze and hit the weights in an effort to discover the healthiest version of himself. It shows. The title of Science, Not Fiction may be a reference to the deeper thinking that followed not being constantly sozzled, but its urgent, restless, often psychedelic sound is that of a singer – and his band – in fighting shape, ready to take on this strange new world.The Fire At The Centre Of The Earth Is Mine revs things immediately into gear. Not just a brilliantly up-tempo bit of Sabbath worship, it's more importantly a seismic statement of self-belief from a band almost 30 years into their journey with no interest on coasting on glories past. (Not) Rocket Science follows up with a side of self-awareness, driving hard into the sort of neck-breaking riffs, fathomless grooves and cosmic imagery that have always been the Goblin’s stock in trade. It’s on the even groovier Ascend The Negative (‘Reclaim your mind, reclaim your time, conquer negativity’), and the jazzy seven-minute epic False Hope Diet that the record really shows its hand, though, channelling OG’s renewed purpose (thanks, also, to incoming bassist Harry Armstrong) into a brilliantly psychedelic experimentalism.Reinventing the steel is not the objective, of course. As much as the tantalising acid flashbacks to the likes of King Crimson, Pink Floyd and The Beatles are striking focal points, this remains classic Orange Goblin. Heads-down highlight Cemetary Rats already feels like it’ll be part of their live set for years. Gemini (Twins Of Evil) brings the ubiquitous old-school horror worship, albeit with less unbound bloodlust than a sense of spiralling, hypnotic seduction. And although final track End Of Transmission reckons on the (someday) inevitable end of the band, harking back to 27-years-old first LP Frequencies From Planet 10, this is less the sound of an outfit with the end in sight than one riding a new lease of life.Keeping it uncomplicated, Science, Not Fiction finds Orange Goblin on their strongest, most strident form in over a decade. That’s a fact.
Line-Up:
Ben Ward - Vocals (1995-present) - See also: ex-Our Haunted Kingdom, ex-Ravens Creed
Joe Hoare - Guitars (1995-present) - See also: ex-Our Haunted Kingdom
Harry Armstrong - Bass (2021-present) - See also: The Earls of Mars, ex-Collapse, ex-End of Level Boss, ex-Hangnail, ex-Decomposed, Blind River, Noisepicker, The Winchester Club, ex-Reactor, ex-Rise to Addiction, ex-Lord of Putrefaction, ex-Firebird
Chris Turner - Drums (1995-present) - See also: ex-Capricorns, ex-Fabric, ex-The Dukes of Nothing
Tracklist:
01. The Fire At The Centre Of The Earth Is Mine
02. (Not) Rocket Science
03. Ascend The Negative
04. False Hope Diet
05. Cemetary Rats
06. The Fury Of A Patient Man
07. Gemini (Twins Of Evil)
08. The Justice Knife
09. End Of Transmission
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