REVEREND BIZARRE — III: So Long Suckers (review)

REVEREND BIZARRE — III: So Long Suckers album cover Album · 2007 · Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Warthur
Reverend Bizarre's final album is presented in that most dangerous of formats: a 2CD double album with each CD crammed with over an hour of music. Few bands can sustain a consistent level of quality across the space of such a long album without letting filler slip in here and there, but Reverend Bizarre manage to pull it off; even better, their flirtation with shorter and more commercial song formats on Crush the Insects seems to have been dropped in favour of the epic approach of their debut album. (Ironically, this seems to have resulted in their greatest commercial success, with a 16 minute edit of the opening track hitting number 1 in the Finnish single charts!)

This swansong for the band sees them at their most inventive - perhaps the most surprising feature being the use of synthesisers to add a Byzantine texture to the outro of Caesar Forever - and stands alongside the classic In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend as a monument to a brilliant and all too short-lived band.
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