The Tower, by Old Grey Horror

The Tower

by Old Grey Horror

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David Fonseca An epic in the true sense of the word. Flows effortlessly from spitfire death-metal riffing to somber meditations on the lives and deaths of the young soldiers subjected to the horrors of trench warfare. An achievement.

AxedCrown If you were wishing that Kyuss wrote a Floydian concept album about the first World War that descends into noisy doom death before coming up for acoustic air, today is your lucky day! This album runs the gamut without ever plodding. Great stuff! Favorite track: Trommelfeuer.

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140g black vinyl in gatefold outer jacket & printed inner sleeve, lavishly decorated with ink drawings, photos and designs by J. Adams. Dynamic master by Alex DeTurk. Lacquer cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. This how the music was meant to be heard.

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Only 100 cassettes in the first run. Clear case. Clear, normal-bias cassette. Color J-card. Printed from the same dynamic master used to press vinyl. Since Side A is longer than Side B, don't forget to fast forward to the end of Side A before you flip it over.

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1.	Franz Ferdinand Must Die 03:00	info	buy track
2.	The Lamps Are Going Out All Over Europe 01:00	info	buy track
3.	Mobilize 02:55	info	buy track
4.	Schrecklichkeit 05:45	info	buy track
5.	Into the Teeth 03:50	info	buy track
6.	Christmas, 1914 03:40	info	buy track
7.	The Tower 04:03	info	buy track
8.	Trommelfeuer 05:29	info	buy track
9.	Over the Top 03:40	info	buy track
10.	One More Day 03:42	info	buy track
11.	Le Claque 02:55	info	buy track
12.	Crawl in the Bottle 04:20	info	buy track

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The Tower is less a metal album than a symphonic manual of destruction—roaring, experimental, loosely constructed and yet strung together by razor-thin filigrees of hard-driving precision.

Old Grey Horror’s The Tower delivers the heavy metal war epic our bloodthirsty souls have been craving since we ditched purple sack suits and strapped on bandoliers. The album is the brainchild of Jason Adams, co-author of gold record Eurotrip anthem "Scotty Doesn’t Know." This new project finds the guitarist bombing into more harrowing sonic terrain, guiding the listener through one infernal circle after the next like a latter-day Virgil. The album is as DIY as they come: Adams wrote all the music and lyrics, drew the album’s cover art, smashed dumpsters and cast iron pans in pursuit of the perfect effect. His commitment to retro recording techniques charges each track with a dense, lush ambience that will rocket you back to the golden age of vinyl.

Adams researched hundreds of WWI texts in making this album, and his erudition reveals itself in every lyric and every note. A blood-soaked chronicle of humanity’s eternal lust for destruction, the album rides forty-five minutes of thundering doom, frenzied thrash, and seventies power rock out of the gates of hell and straight into the fucking sun.

Hole up in your den, pour yourself something strong, and drop the needle. A decade in the making, The Tower arrives with the recrudescence of a Europe teetering on ruin. It is the score for a horror film that is still being written. A hard-rocking, relentless, gorgeous, and timely masterpiece.

credits

released October 6, 2022

J. Adams: guitar, bass, vox, percussion, synths & samples
Brad Dujmovic: trumpet, piano, ehru, vox, synths & effects
Mike Bolger: accordion on Franz Ferdinand Must Die
Gant Frink: drums on Franz Ferdinand Must Die & Mobilize
Jimmy Lee: drums on Schrecklichkeit, Into the Teeth, The Tower, & Trommelfeuer
Evan McEneaney: guitar on Into the Teeth, The Tower, & Trommelfeuer
Zac Morris: drums & percussion on Over the Top, One More Day, Le Claque, & Crawl in the Bottle
Lia Trinka-Browner & Alisha Dujmovic: backing vox on Le Claque
Patrick Cates: voices of Captain Charles Beck Hornby (4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards) & Sergeant Geordie
David Pitcher: voices of Sergeant Major Shoutie, Lieutenant Devonshire, & estaminet bouncer

All songs written, recorded, and produced by J. Adams
Recorded at Royal Rehearsal #1, Los Angeles and Jaith's Man Cave, Silver Lake
Additional recording by Brad Dujmovic at Courthouse Studios, Los Angeles
Mixed by Brad Dujmovic
Mastered by Alex DeTurk
Lacquer masters cut by Scott Hull, Chief Engineer, Masterdisk
Cover art by J. Adams
℗ & © 2022 J. Adams / KJTA Music (ASCAP)

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