Review: Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer

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Doom-dirge practitioners Burning Witch have long since shuffled off this mortal coil but this reissued compilation now expanded to two CDs collects all their recordings with a lavishly thick 40-page booklet of photos, medieval images and essays. Subtitled Ten Psalms for Our Lord of Light (a twist on the original limited-edition Seven Psalms released in 1998), Crippled Lucifer is a must for all doom fans. The Towers disc predates the predominant dirge that would put Stephen OMalleys Sunn0))) on the metal map and seems more Grief-inspired, with tasteful feedback and prolonged chords of woe. The standout is the...

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