Bigelf - Closer To Doom (1996) [Reissue 2001]

European release of this classic heavy rock album with four bonus tracks! A beautiful combination of Black Sabbath and The Beatles.

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Track Listing

1. Change (3:43)
2. Crazy (3:37)
3. Frustration (5:23)
4. Salvation (3:21)
5. In The Void (4:18)
6. Closer To Doom (4:56)
*bonus tracks*
7. Theme One (From "An Instrumental Thing") (2:42)
8. I, The Jury (Previously released single '94) (3:13)
9. Fight ('92 demo) (3:15)
10. Baron Saturday (Recorded live at the Viper Room February 1996) (3:46)

Produced by Sylvia Massy & Bigelf

The Band

Damon Fox - keyboards, guitar, vocals
Andrew H.M. Jones - guitar, piano, vocals
Richard Anton - bass guitar, vocals
Steve Frothingham - drums

Notes

Bigelf's metallic circus-influenced music is a quilt of T.Rex, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd. It's essentially a six-pack of kick ass. But the foursome, with their stovepipe hats and turn-of-the-century, Oliver Twist waistcoats, aren't exactly a novelty outfit. There's some serious musical muscle on their bones. Bigelf were formed as a psychedelic/glam-tinged hard rock outfit in 1991 in Los Angeles, California by Damon Fox and Richard Anton. They initially gained a large underground following. The quartet recorded 6-track EP "Closer To Doom" in spring 1995 co-produced by Sylvia Massy. "Closer To Doom" was released in 1996 and established them as 'fathers' of the psychedelic doom movement that spawned the L.A. stoner-rock scene. Swedish prog & heavy metal label, Record Heaven would eventually release it in 2001.



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See also:
* Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows (2008)