Darkness Rains by Death Valley Girls

At the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Fun House’s sonic exorcisms, ZZ Top’s desert-blasted riffage, and Sabbath’s occult menace. On their third album Darkness Rains, Death Valley Girls churn out the hypercharged scuzzy rock every generation yearns for, but there is a more subversive force percolating beneath the surface that imbues the band with an exhilarating cosmic energy.

Album opener “More Dead” is a rousing wake up call, with a hypnotic guitar riff and an intoxicating blown-out solo underscoring Bloomgarden’s proclamation that you’re “more dead than alive.” The pace builds with “(One Less Thing) Before I Die”, a distillate of Detroit’s proto-punk sound. At track three, Death Valley Girls hit their stride with “Disaster (Is What We’re After)”, a rager that takes the most boisterous moments off Exile On Main Street and injects it with Zeppelin’s devil’s-note blues. Darkness Rains retains its intoxicating convocations across ten tracks, climaxing with the hypnotic guitar drones and cult-like chants of “TV In Jail On Mars”.

Tracklist

1.	More Dead	2:36

2.	(One Less Thing) Before I Die	1:36

3.	Disaster (Is What We're After)	3:38

4.	Unzip Your Forehead	3:45

5.	Wear Black	3:02

6.	Abre Camino	4:43

7.	Born Again and Again	3:47

8.	Street Justice	2:41

9.	Occupation: Ghost Writer	3:20

10.	TV in Jail On Mars	5:48

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released October 5, 2018

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