KARMA TO BURN - Wild Wonderful Purgatory Reissue Due Out Through Metal Mind

June 17, 2008, 16 years ago

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Metal Mind Productions is re-issuing of the second full-length album by KARMA TO BURN - Wild Wonderful Purgatory (1999). According to a press release, Karma To Burn was a desert rock/psychedelic rock band from Morgantown, West Virginia (US) comprised of guitarist William Mecum, bassist Rich Mullins and drummer Nathan Limbaugh (later to be replaced by Rob Oswald for Wild, Wonderful Purgatory). Some early reports on Karma To Burn stated that the band had "vocalist problems". The truth of the matter is the band is at heart an instrumental band. The band had experimented with vocalists before (ex-KYUSS frontman John Garcia briefly worked with them), but a vocalist (Jason Jarosz) was recruited for their debut only to satisfy their record label. Their second album features traditional rock songs in an nontraditional form! All riff-oriented songs are covering all ends of the rock spectrum ranging from AC/DC blue-rhythms to chugging HELMET riffs to more JOY DIVISION-ish flavor (#32) that was displayed on the debut.

This classic material from Roadrunner Records archives will be released in a new digipak edition limited to 2000 copies. New edition of Wild Wonderful Purgatory includes six bonus tracks taken from EP 30.33.32.20 and the bootleg recorded in Utrecht (07.03.2000). Digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc. The album will be released on July 21st in Europe and September 2nd in North America (via MVD).

Tracklist:

'Twenty', 'Twenty Eight', 'Thirty', 'Thirty One', 'Twenty Nine', 'Thirty Two', 'Twenty Five', 'Twenty Six', 'One', 'Three', 'Seven',

'Eight'.

Bonus tracks:

'Thirty' *

'Thirty Tree' *

'Thirty Two' *

'Twenty' *

'Twenty Nine' (live)**

'Thirty One' (live)**

* tracks taken from EP 30.33.32.20

** bootleg recordings from Utrecht (07.03.2000)



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