Goatsnake News: Album Review: Goatsnake - Flower of Disease

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While America's swampy southeastern region, musically, is most notably home to the poor boy blues and an ever burgeoning hip-hop scene, for metal fans the climate here is personified by thick sludgy doom. New Orleans is a mecca for devotees of the down tuned, slow paced, smoke and whiskey stained music. The music reflects the environment -- slow moving because it's entirely too hot and humid to do anything but, and with depressive lyrics because of the economic standing of the region, lyrics that are Mississippi delta blues at their core. There is only one problem here: some of the...