Over the last few years, Providence's power duo Lightning Bolt have been in an envious position for most bands. Flagshipping a fast growing and well-respected independent label, they almost single-handedly sucked people into their own underground scene and have managed to keep all of them there, with bells on. Their live shows are borderline legendary, packed with more volume than ten bands twice their size. In the last year, they've been featured in Spin, played with Sonic Youth, and headlined All Tomorrows Parties festival (tha shit), all under their own terms and resources. 

Hypermagic Mountain is quickly becoming the highest selling album on Load Records, reportedly selling out of all vinyl LPs in the first week. If that's not encouraging, then I don't know what is. It is however, somewhat of a typical Lightning Bolt album. Their setup, for you newbies, is bass, run through a million effects, and drums, with the occasional yelp from drummer Brian Chippandale and his gas mask microphone. This album has its ups and downs, but overall is an important step in the deflowering of new music. More riff-heavy than most of their previous work, Hypermagic Mountain finds Lightning Bolt a little more song-oriented than before. More emphasis is added to that with the lyrics, previously anybody's guess, clearly printed in the booklet. The full-on, blasting break beats are there, as well as a good amount of experimentation with different effect pedals on the bass. Brian Gibson has always treated the bass more like a guitar, and on several tracks, reaches nirvana with metal-ish runs and very catchy melodies. The audo assault lasts over 50 minutes, birthing demons crossbread somewhere between Slayer and Sonic Youth. The downsides to the album, and with LB in general, is the tendency to play a riff or part so long, it becomes redundant and even a little annoying. While this approach is extremely effective live, it drags a little on the recorded end. 

This album will prove to be a gateway drug for LOTS of people jaded with the state of aggressive music. It is experimental enough for noise fans, catchy enough for punk fans, and loud enough for fans of whatever, galaxies away. This isn't my favorite of Lightning Bolt's albums, but there are moments of pure bliss throughout, making it a worthy composition of ROCK. 

Oh, the artwork you say? Possibly the best I've ever seen. 
No, this is not Classic Rock.

If you are a Lightning Bolt fanatic, you will be thrilled to find a copy of Hypermagic Mountain that is in such fantastic shape!



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Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain

Label:

Load Records ?– Load 078

Format:

Vinyl, LP 
Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Etched 
All Media, Album 

Country:

US

Released:

Oct 2005

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Speed Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Noise

Tracklist

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Machines With Magnets
• Recorded At – Hillarious Attic
• Mastered At – Peerless Mastering
• Mastered At – SAE Mastering

Credits

• Artwork [Art By] – L/B*
• Bass, Effects [Pedal Pile] – G.BBers*
• Composed By [All Stuff Jammed By] – Brainy Chippendale*, Brainy G.bson*
• Drums, Vocals [Noise Vocals], Performer [Tone Maker] – Chip*
• Engineer [Assistant] – Keith Souza (tracks: 2, 6, 8, 9, 11), Seth* (tracks: 2, 6, 8, 9, 11)
• Engineer [Recording Engineer], Other [Therapist, Trouble Maker] – Dave Auchenbach
• Mastered By – Jeff "Lucid" Lipton*
• Mixed By [Live Mixing] – Dave A.*

Notes

Hey, whatsup. Welcome to Lightning Bolt 4. 
Hypermagic Mountain. 
tracks 2, 6, 8, 9 and 11 were recorded live to 
2 inch tape at Machines With Magnets 
in East Providence, thanks to Keith Souza 
and Seth . for assisting Dave A. on 
that shit! Keiths studio is cool. Tracks 
1, 3, 4, 5, 7 to and 12 we did live to DAT 
machine here in the Hillarious Attic 
LB's current home. Dave A. sat behind 
a wall and did live mixing even though 
he couldn't hear what he was doing 
over our noise next door ! soon we will 
be evicted in a long line of evictions 
to make way for luxury loft for 
steralized americans. Drink bleach. 
Jeff "Lucid" Lipton mastered it in 
amazing modern style in (UHG) Boston 
Mass. at Peerless. You can check your 
email while he makes fun of you. But 
we love him! our cats lined up to hear 
the finished version. i don't know who 
is mastering vinyl right now. All 3 
sides of it. I forget... .. Hmmm. ok. It 
was recorded practically everyday from 
May 29 till June 21st. 2005. 2005! 
After we toured down to Churchills in 
Miami and back to warm up. What else 

This record is mastered for metal Loudness !!! 

Pressed on black vinyl. Side 4 is etched with a hand-drawn picture; no music on it.