I DEFY YOU TO BE
HER BREATHLESS MOMENT'S PLEA
TO BATHE BENEATH
THE ARROW ON HER KNEE
COME JOIN IN THE KILL
Heavy Psych mega monster
of the
best quality imaginable.
This is a
$2000 mega rarity.
Their only album,
Moon Blood,
was an
Extremely Limited
200 copy pressing.
Physical copies
were a rarity
until the album’s
re-release
nearly forty years later,
in 2010.
It's been said to be the album
The Doors
had wished they
had recorded.
If you take The Doors
and a way wasted
beyond belief
Jim Morrison
sounding vocalist
and some
heavy duty
amplification
and a dark eerie vibe
of say
Iron Butterfly
or
Black Sabbaths debut
you will be close
to what this monster
is all about.
Strange apocalyptic lyrics
virtually indecipherable
without the lyric sheet
that are not your typical
Christian fare by any means.
There are very few albums
in the
psych/punk/hard rock/private presses
strata that garner
the sort of
universal awe
and accolades
that Fraction’s
almighty
Moonblood LP does,
and even
fewer records
in the world that
could be dubbed
‘Christian Rock’
incur such
fierce devotion.
Indeed some records
just meteorically lift
themselves out any
genre tag with
brilliance and sheer
defiance–and
Moonblood
is surely one of them.
Based in LA,
Fraction
was a ragged collection of
working-class
musicians–the line-up was
ringleader
Jim Beach
vocals;
Don Swanson
lead guitar,
Curt Swanson
drums,
Victor Hemme
bass,
and
Robert Meinel
rhythm guitar.
Equally as integral to the
Fraction sound
is lead guitarist
Don Swanson”
”his blown-out fuzz riffs
set a template for
what is now
commonly known as
“stoner rock”
or
“acid punk,"
and his solos consist
of jagged,
wah-wah-ed shards
of notes,
with his amplifier
clearly pushed to the limit.
A few short years ago,
if you had wanted
to listen to this record
you would have had to
buy a poor quality bootleg
or spend upwards of
£1,000 for one
of the 200 copies
that comprised the
entire original 1971 pressing.
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