Can't blame ya for getting Acid King mixed up with a LOT of other bands with "acid" in their name in your iTunes, on your CD shelf, in the pile of vinyl on the floor, in the cassettes in storage, etc. Hell, I've been listening to this, trying my hardest to remember, and even as a big fan of doom, I'm still mainly faking it here, although the bio tells me that this is their first one in almost a decade, and also that there's a female in the band, and those bread crumbs are bringing back some memories. Look, no one said doom fans have the best memories anyway, so let's just cut to the chase: Acid King (who?) kill it pretty hard here, the band slothing through things with a heavy, hazy fuzz like Electric Wizard at their laziest, the sludge dripping, the doom rocking, the drugs all over the damn place.

The production works, the drummer has style, the songs are huge, unwieldy, yet still totally enjoyable to listen to, the album snug next to Acid Bath and Acid Tiger and just down the hallway from Acid Witch in my digital collection, definitely sonic brethren to the latter, spiritual to the former, and, nope, no relation to Acid Tiger (who, my iTunes is informing me, I haven't listened to since the afternoon of May 6, 2010, FYI; so many Acid bands, so little time). All joking aside, this rocks heavy and hard, not stoner but too fun to be fully doom, and nowhere near sludge really, songs like opening it-never-ends trudger "Silent Pictures" doing a great job at what it is that Acid King do.