Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer re-issue

EDIT (January 27th, 2008) NOTE: The release date has been pushed back until February 8th). Also coming out the same day on Daymare is a re-issue of Sunn O)))'s first album, VOID which is also getting the 2 disc treatment, Disk 2 being a re-mix by Steven Stapleton, it'll be worth purchasing just for that.

“Crippled Lucifer: 10 Psalms For Our Lord of Light” is finally out on Southern Lord as a 2 CD set, but I'm waiting for the Daymare version which comes out this Friday (Jan.25th), because it apparently has an extra live show which is not on the Southern Lord issue, however, it comes with a special download card with a link to download the show! What the fuck? If there's room, just put it on the disc ya fucking dweebs!!! I don't understand SL sometimes. Anyway, Daymare's gettin' my money.
A bit of history for those of you in the dark: After the breakup of the cult doom/death band Thorr's Hammer in 1995, Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson and Jamie Sykes formed Burning Witch. The band then added G. Stuart Dahlquist and vocalist Edgy 59 (Alan Dubin), rounding out their lineup. Anderson left the band and moved to Los Angeles to form Goatsnake. In 1996, the band (w/out Anderson) recorded songs with Steve Albini, which would become the Towers... EP. This collection would actually not see a formal release on 12" until 1998 on Slap A Ham Records. After the sessions for these songs, Sykes left the band and was replaced by B.R.A.D. The sessions that followed the Albini recordings resulted in the Rift.Canyon.Dreams EP, which would prove to be the final recordings by the band, as they broke up soon after the disc was completed. It was released on 12" by Merciless Records. Shortly after disbanding: " Crippled Lucifer" a compilation CD of the two EPs, was released in 1998 by the then new label Southern Lord Records. It was the second release of the label, the first being Thorrs' Hammer. Burning Witch briefly reformed for their last shows in the fall of 1998 after which Edgy 59 left the band. O'Malley reunited with Anderson to form Sunn O))), and Dahlquist joined both in sunn 0))) for their first two albums (The Grimm Robe Demos øø Void) then briefly joined Anderson in Goatsnake for the "Flower of Disease" album. This deluxe double cd re-issue of all Burning Witch recordings will serve as a respectful epitaph for this incredible band. It compiles both the Towers and Rift Canyon Dreams albums which were on the the original Crippled Lucifer release PLUS the following out of print material: "Communion" and "the Bleeder" from: split CD with Goatsnake (Hydra Head Records 2000) OUT OF PRINT and "Rift Canyon Dreams" from :split 12" with Asva (Dos Fatales Records 2004) OUT OF PRINT (remixed by Randall Dunn (sunn, boris, earth) and available for the first time ever on cd).

So as you can see, these recordings are the roots of much of what has grown into the current existence of Southern Lord alumni including Sunn 0))), Khanate, Goatsnake, Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine etc.. as well as: KTL, Asva, etc.. This deluxe double cd re-issue of all Burning Witch recordings will serve as a respectful epitaph for this incredible band.

Slow swampy down tuned guitars, depression, agony, long songs, your basic doom metal gourmét meal. Be Warned, this is not fuckin' stoner rock like Sleep, Earth or OM. This is pure punishment. Let there be DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!