Warthur
Reverend Bizarre originally recorded this one in 2004, decided it wasn't good enough for a stand alone release, and slapped it onto a reissue of In the Rectory as a bonus disc - despite the fact that fits neatly onto a double LP album.
It took a while for the material here to grow on me, mostly because the mainline Reverend Bizarre albums are just that good - that's their legendary quality control for you. That said, I wasn't going to toss my copy away - because I got it as a bonus disc with my copy of In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend - and after some repeated listens this begins to show some deeper charms. Beneath the traditional doom stylings here there's some esoteric psychedelic influences that creep in on Goddess of Doom, for instance, or even some jazzy playing that emerges on Aleister, and other such stylistic experiments which really enrich proceedings. For all their rhetoric about the purity of Doom Metal, Reverend Bizarre secretly understand that Sabbath were considered a progressive band in their time, and had a broader sonic range than they are given credit for, and so working in some rather progressive playing is all in the spirit of good doom.