bongripper is next to animals as leaders my favourite instrumental band. their progressive doom metal is able to unleash such a mantra-like power, it is remarkable. the rising and dense atmosphere of their songs transfers one into riff nirvana. i have almost all their releases on vinyl but two were always eluding me.
the noise/soundscape album "heroin" which doesn't really appeal to me and their debut album "the great barrier reefer". the album was actually self-released in 2006 and it wasn't until 2012 that a proper vinyl version was produced. emetic records did the job back then with only 100 colour copies. so those didn't come by cheap. thankfully the lads run their own now label to promote their stuff.
another seven years later and here we are with this slick re-press. burning world rec. from the netherlands provided the eu distro and now i am the proud owner of this splattered blue/purple merge version out of 200 copies. musically the first lp isn't that exciting but the last half of the reefer makes up for that big time. really excited to see them live in two weeks. great barrier records.
