Title: A few things you should know about 'First Utterance'
Review: Not many albums feel genuinely dangerous. This one does.The band, in their photos, look like psychotics, hippies gone wrong. While some metal bands have cited Comus as an influence, in fact 'First Utterance' leaves a lot of metal for dead in the 'heaviness' stakes - although few metalheads would admit that due to the non-electric instrumentation. The album can't really be compared to anything else. It isn't folk. It isn't rock. It is unique. It makes you want to start jumping round the room and smashing things. It is Dionysian, violent, beautiful, timeless...Forty years after its release, 'First Utterance' makes most of today's music seem like mechanised sludge by comparison.
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