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Goblin King

by King Goblin

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about

Review by Aquarius Records
You'd think it would be easy to write reviews of records you love, but it's not, not always anyway. This band, though, makes the task easier, 'cause maybe we can just say a few key words: JAPAN. DOOM. PSYCH. CRAZY. Uh... is that doing the trick? Tokyo trio King Goblin, who describe themselves as a "progressive space psychedelic death rock band", definitely have that "anything goes", totally WTF?! Japanese thing going for 'em, mixing up prog and punk and funk and metal and noise whatever else they want, you know what we mean if you have albums by bands like Boredoms, Melt Banana, Children Coup D'Etat, Space Streakings, Omoide Hatoba, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, and others of that ilk in your collection. Specifically, though, the Japanese bands that King Goblin most especially make us think of are CSSO, Solar Anus, and Sigh (circa Imaginary Sonicscape). Somehow melding gonzo grind and druggy doom, plodding heaviness and catchy grooves, the nine strange songs here bouncing from spaced out acid rock to lumbering funk, with rubbery bass, squiggly guitar, gruff guttural vocals, and, as it says here, "hand craps" (sorry if it's not PC to chuckle over that particular credit in the cd booklet!).
Imagine if retro-disco-doomsters Cathedral got even weirder than they already are now, turned Japanese, and went no wave... that might approximate the dizzying extreme entertainment offered up by King Goblin. Also, how can songs with titles like "Boiled Again (Born To Ride)" and "Motordead" not be entertaining?
This disc, their debut, actually dates from 2007, but we only discovered 'em recently, and got some copies directly from Japan as quick as we could. They're working on a new album, to be entitled Cryptozoology, but unfortunately the guitarist of King Goblin is currently suffering from some unspecified, serious illness, so that's delaying things. Hopefully he gets better soon!! However, a couple of the King Goblin guys are also in wicked sick grindcore band called AKBK, who have a brand new album out that smokes, see the review elsewhere on our site.

credits

released April 22, 2007

Guitar, Vocals : Masashi Suzuki
Bass, Vocals : Hidetoshi Ehara
Drums, Vocals : Naoto Araki
Recorded at Noise Room
Engineered by Shigenori Kobayashi
Mixed by Masashi Momota from Gonin-ish (#1, 2, 6, 7)

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King Goblin Tokyo, Japan

Formed in : 1998

Influence : Doom Rock, ’70’s Hard Rock, Prog Rock, Grind Rock.

For fans of : Cathedral, VOIVOD, King Crimson, Black Flag, Mastodon, Melvins

Discography : “GOBLIN KING” (2007)

Members : Naoto Araki (Vo, Dr), Hidetoshi Ehara (Ba, Vo), Marcy (Gt, Cho)

Past members : Masashi Suzuki (1998-2009), Kelly Churko (2009-2014)
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