WICKED KING WICKER - 'Evolving' 

CSR154CD (August 2013)
CD in jewelcase
Barcode: 5060174954139



Brand new studio album from Wicked King Wicker. WKW return to Cold Spring with their seventh album proper. Thick, black noise is underpinned by monolithic, crawling doom, in a way that only Wicked King Wicker can deliver. Total annihilation spread over 4 immense tracks. 45 minutes of music to shatter souls. Features cover art from Steve Cerio (The Residents' regular designer). "...rather impressive they are... it's great" (Stuart Maconie, BBC Radio 6 Music)

Track listing:

1. The Devil Must Learn The Limitations Of The Host (10:00)
2. A Prayer For Death (15:36)
3. Zen And The Art Of Nihilism (12:41)
4. The High Exalted Nothing (7:30)

Reviews:

"Evolving is the latest from NY doom/sludge/dirge/drone duo Wicked King Wicker, and does in fact find the band evolving, their already blackened, tarpit, ambient dirgery moving further away from any proper metallic riffery, and instead, exploding in a supernova of power electronics and blacknoize brutality.... a pulsating buzz over a field of grinding blackened electronics, of rumbling, crumbling drones, the vibe weirdly motorik, buried beneath all the noisiness... strange shapes drifting, hauntingly melodic, giving the noisiness a mysteriously tranquil core... swirls of white noise, swaths of hiss and static, there seem to be vocals as well, buried in the mix, a monstrous bellow, blurred into still more smeared soft focus blackbuzz, the sound locked into an almost kraut-drone noisiness, before splintering into something much more caustic and chaotic, but still anchored by that buzzing riff-like pulsation.... a darkly propulsive black dirge, almost industrial sounding, like Wolf Eyes meets SUNNO))) meets Bunkur, with some seriously terrifying vokills, no high end on this one, a black murk blowout that might be our favorite track here!” (Aquarius)

"Like a wooden cart clacking its ungainly way up a rusting roller coaster track, or a jet engine firing up into the listener’s face, Evolving is pregnant with gruesome, sinister threat. The intensity constantly escalates; churned up bass drums pound ever louder from behind the album’s membrane of oily spluttering motor noise, which in turn is constantly cranked up until it’s left screaming into the point of eruption, forever threatening to burst without Wicked King Wicker ever actually needing to press the big red button. When implication is as ferocious as this – a filthy mill of molten feedback and crackle, heaving under its own outward pressure – implication is more than enough" (Rock-A-Rolla)

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