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Jun 3, 2015Not only is Black Age Blues Goatsnake's best album, it is an instant classic of the stoner-doom hybrid and an earthy, electrifying endgame for rock & roll itself.
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Jun 3, 2015While a few songs on Black Age Blues could’ve been cut, it’s still a Goatsnake album, which is to say that it’s badass.
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Kerrang!Jun 10, 2015With overwhelming heaviness tempered by blues and gospel vibes, this enthralling comeback soothes the soul even as Goatsnake crush your ears. [13 Jun 2015, p.52]
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Jun 3, 2015Black Age Blues makes you think about how the simplest things are often the hardest to express. Most importantly, though, it kicks ass.
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Jun 3, 2015This is an exceptional addition to Goatsnake's catalog; it's a doomsday boogie album for the ages.
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Jun 3, 2015This might be blues, it might be doom, but the return of Goatsnake can be nothing other than a good thing.
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Jun 3, 2015here’s not one tired moment, no obvious retreads to be heard. It’s a solid third act, making good on the promises of (many) tomorrows.
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Jun 5, 2015Through little fault of Goatsnake’s own, listening to Black Age Blues can sometimes feel like watching wizened blues musicians play the music of their now-distant youth. The style is familiar enough to be comforting, but it’s also inherently trite and redundant.
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Jun 15, 2015There’s a warm, fuzzy familiarity to Goatsnake’s doomy, bluesy sound, with Stahl’s stirring, soulful vocals always elevating these southern gothic rumbles above the mundane, not least on the striking and rather beautiful seven-minute closer A Killing Blues.
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MojoJun 10, 2015Black Age Blues is satisfyingly solid and reassuringly familiar a comeback as you'd expect. [Jul 2015, p.89]