SKULLFLOWER – LAST SHOT AT HEAVEN Vinyl 2xLP Online Hot Sale

When describing the Last Shot at Heaven cover art on the Skullflower Bandcamp page, Matthew Bower highlights the ambiguity of the striking photograph of a civilian casualty during the Yugoslavian schism. Is it ecstatic[?] he asks of the woman s expression. This, too, is a question one could reasonably ask of any Skullflower album.

Bower and his many cohorts body of work is full of lengthy compositions that evoke all manner of emotions. Statement records like IIIrd Gatekeeper , released a year before this one, were as terrifying as they were beautiful in their ferocious majesty. But Last Shot at Heaven is something different altogether; desperate, anguished and rapturous, it is among rock music s closest approximations to the final burst of dopamine before the bullet exits your skull.

Psychedelic doesn t begin to cover it. Ecstatic suits this much better.

TRACK LIST:

1. CALIGULA
3. GET THR HORN
5. DUFUS
7. BAD ALCHEMY
9. ELF PIERCER
11. ROTTEN SUN II
13. MYSTIC EYE
15. BLOWN DUKES