Genre: Stoner Metal
Label: Faba Records
Karma To Burn didn't waste any time kicking my ass with thier newest stoner metal sentinel, "Arch Stanton" so I won't waste any time boring you with a history lesson about West Virginia's shameful, smokey secret, Karma To Burn. All you need to know is that these guys are the best at what they do.
"Arch Stanton" starts things off by galloping straight over you with another of Even Divine's driving beats. These things will get into your head and stay there for at least a couple of days, effectively throwing off your foot taping playlist's queue. Three tracks in however, things take a turn for the heavy and we begin to experience a dirtier sound with everything thickening up like the world's sludgiest roux.
After that, things kinda go all over the place in terms of heavy/fast/etc..., like a mesquite, musical smorgas board of William Mecum's tasty riffs. I've said it aloud before and now I get to type it out; it's like the guy knows exactly what we want to hear and when those transitions need to be made. It's almost eerie, but still completely welcome since the end result are songs like these.
Once again, Karma To Burn keep to their instrumental ways and forgo having to deal with the perpetual pains in the ass known as, "vocalists" (unless you count Clint Eastwood in the last track) and are, once again, better off without one. And at this point, it would be pretty odd to just suddenly have one, right? I mean, I think we all loved Waiting On The Western World and their cover of Never Say Die, but a permanent singer now would just feel off. So, YAY! Instrumental album!
The only complaint I have about "Arch Stanton" is that the song titles are still numbers. Ask your average Karma To Burn fan what their favorite song of theirs is and I bet it doesn't go over too well. Other than that, it's what we want and what we always get from the guys in Karma To Burn: their best.
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