Gwyn Ashton

This is a harsh, distorted and ultimately ugly set of songs – and also enormously involving and entertaining.

Ashton has been around seemingly forever and this has the soul and edge of his early Blues & Rock work in Australia in the mid-seventies.

The feel of the music is all about the psychedelic journey through the Blues, overpowered amps driven hard into distortion, his reedy voice floating over the morass of noise and on every track a hammerblow bass drum on the actual drum that Bill Ward used on Black Sabbath’s first album.

Ashton recorded all this mania in a Czech hotel room with everything cranked to the max and caught live on mikes scattered around the room. He was trying to capture the manic intensity of his live sets and expecially on tracks such as ‘Metaphysical Journey’ or ‘Dawn Of Tomorrow’ he has done just that.

This isn’t an album to sit and listen to. Clamp the speakers to your head and let the jagged power saw away at your cerebellum. You may end up bleeding and delirious – but in a good way!