2017 press on yellow vinyl

Their 1991 album The Wayward Sons Of Mother Earth had been anearth shattering album and breaking new ground with bringing folkmusic into heavy metal. The 1992 titled A Burnt Offering For TheBone Idol would bring Skyclad even closer to their goal of meldingthrash and classic metal influences with folk music. Like the finalpiece to a puzzle, the addition of full-time fiddle player FrithaJenkins boosts the band’s courage, and the album’s excellent firstsingle Spinning Jenny epitomizes their direction and newfound senseof purpose. Songs like A Broken Promised Land, Alone in Death’sShadow and Karmageddon still thrash convincingly, but also benefitfrom melodic keyboard lines and better singing from vocalist MartinWalkyier. This was also the first album that signaled the band’sfirst foray into socio-political issues. Granted, Sabbat’s generaldogma was that Paganism’s purity always defeats Catholicism’signorance of carnal and earthly pleasures, but here, Walkyierexplodes of anger. He clumsily talks about pedophilia in the clergywithout even using this term on Men of Straw, declaring that Theyare not men but beasts indeed, so take this beast and hang it,coming to order people to Just line them all against the wall andlet me pull the trigger. Fortunately, he talks more cleverly ofpacifism on A Broken Promised Land, where he references theparadoxical upturn on Russia and the high-crime Moss district ofManchester (In the troubled streets of Moscow and in tenements inMoss Side / There are people using silver tongues to turndissenting worms / How can the dissatisfaction of some left orright wing faction / Hope to justify the bombs that burst, theinnocents that burn). On Spinning Jenny he impersonates a manjustifying his sexuality that easily turns into perversity (“Godknows I was an honest man, the same as any other / Who loved hiswife, worked all his life to keep his family / Until the beast thatnever sleeps beneath my silken covers / Reared its head and bit itsthumb at my morality). Skyclad, exactly as Sabbat, were a much morepowerful lyrical/idealistic force than a consistent musical act.Skyclad’s second album may be one of their most consistent ever,being capable of rivaling Sabbat. While purists may find this albumtoo adventurous, more open-minded listeners will thoroughly enjoyit’s original voice and sense of daring.

Track list:
1. War And Disorder
2. A Broken Promised Land
3. Spinning Jenny
4. Salt On The Earth (Another Man’s Poison)
5. Karmageddon (The Suffering Silence)
6. Ring Stone Round
7. Men Of Straw
8. R’Vannith
9. The Declaration Of Indifference
10. Alone In Death’s Shadow

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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