Acid King – Acid King EP

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ACID KING – ACID KING EP

Colored Vinyl – $23.99

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Pressed on a 12″ for the first time and cut at 45 RPM so it’s EXTRA loud.

Comes in a heavy stock jacket with a printed inner sleeve full of rare photos.

 

When Acid King pressed up their self-titled debut EP on a tape and started handing them out at shows with business cards, it wasnโ€™t an aesthetic choice. It was 1993.

And while the world was still reeling in the aftermath of grunge breaking big on rock radio, this dirty-as-hell trio founded by guitarist/vocalist Lori S. were digging into even heavier vibes. Born out of Lori’s shiftless days of wasted youth hanging around Chicago-area public parks, Acid King laughingly adopted the name from the book ‘Say You Love Satan’ and its subject Ricky Kasso, a local drug dealer who killed a friend over angel dust, thereby becoming the stuff of Satanic Panic local news broadcasts all over the country.

Founded after a move to San Francisco, Acid King were outliers on punker bills in the tradition of West Coast rifflords like Saint Vitus and Sleep, and this four-song outing captures them at their rawest. Long before the career-defining roll of Busse Woods (1999) and the psychedelic mastery of their latest offering, Beyond Vision, this EP set in motion one of American heavy rockโ€™s most landmark careers.

Presented on reissued vinyl through RidingEasy Records โ€“ the original 10โ€ was on Sympathy for the Record Industry โ€“ Acid Kingโ€™s Acid King also established one of the most crucial partnerships in underground rock in that between Lori S. and producer/engineer Billy Anderson (see also: Neurosis, Sleep, Om, Amenra, Eight Bells, Cattle Decapitation and too many others to list). As Acid King went on to help define stoner rock in the mid and late โ€™90s with Zoroaster (1995), their Manโ€™s Ruin Records split with Altamont (โ€˜97) and Busse Woods, that creative relationship would flourish no less than the bandโ€™s sound, and here it is distilled to its meanest and most elemental self.

Led as ever by Lori, Acid King at the time featured bassist/vocalist Peter Lucas and drummer Joey Osbourne โ€“ legend has it both had to read ‘Say You Love Satan’ before joining โ€“ and Melvins drummer Dale Crover had a hand in producing it as well as singing lead on โ€œThe Midwayโ€ after Lucas took a turn on โ€œDrop.โ€ A preface to the many majesties to come throughout Acid Kingโ€™s many-storied career, behold the formative incarnation that started it all. A piece of heavy rock history AND killer riffs? You canโ€™t possibly go wrong. – JJ Koczan, May 2023

 

SIDE A
1. Lead Paint
2. Blasting Cap
SIDE B
1. Drop
2. Midway
Weight 1.25 lbs

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