MP3 + Linus Pauling Quartet Announce Epic Career Retrospective Box Set For December 18th
11.16.2012
Decoder Magazine Premieres The First Single Off Assault On The Vault Of The Ancient Bonglords
Critical Praise for Linus Pauling Quartet:
"A core point about the Linus Pauling Quartet isn't merely that they're a great psych band, but a great band period, able to embrace a lot of styles and moods and work them well. " - AllMusic
"Anthemic, stupid and selflessly unrestrained, the LPQ eventually attain self immolation of sorts during the sprawling chaos." - Ptolemaic Terrascope
"A quartet of Texas weirdoes who're smart enough to play it real stupid, mining that fine line between drug-induced idiocy and conceptual genius for way more than you might've thought it was worth." - Deep Water
The Song:
Twenty years is a long time in dog years, and an even longer time in the music industry. Nobody knows that better than Linus Pauling Quartet, the venerated Houston band that has been rocking faces off for the last two decades. Over that span of time, Clinton, Ramon, Charlie, Steve, and Larry have amassed quite the collection of stoner-psych-metal jams; so, it only makes sense for LP4 to release a career retrospective album, a 3CD box set containing their choicest nugs from over the years, titled Assault on the Vault of the Ancient Bonglords, due out December 18th.
A curated 42-track selection spanning from their first release, Immortal Chinese Classics Music, to their most recent Bag of Hammers from this past October, AVABL is a testament to LP4's staying power in the rock industry. Throughout their career, LP4 has maintained a signature sense of humor about their music, which is evident in their epically claymated "Crom" and wildly sock-puppet "Victory Gin" videos. Keeping in stride, AVABL will come in a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired module, complete with LP4 character sheet, mind-blowing artwork, and 20-sided dice.
Now, Linus Pauling Quartet is releasing the first single from Assault on the Vault of the Ancient Bonglords, a classic, knuckle-dragging shredder called "Drunkest Man." According to Charlie, who was the mastermind behind this number, the main inspiration for this ode to inebriation wasn't based on anyone specific. "I wasn't trying to criticize or judge anyone, I just took some details and impressions from some people I knew in Houston and built on them," says Charlie. It was mostly just one of those songs where you kind of take on a persona, and then fill in the details," says Charlie. The song, which Decoder Magazine premiered today, progresses from a softer riff and solo to a head-banging voyage while chronicling the mythological drunkest man who was born and raised on bourbon and gasoline.
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The Background:
Pure guitar muscle and Texas stoner metal psych insanity with universal themes like drugs, beer, sci-fi/fantasy, and Bongs of Power. If you like your riffs heavy, the solos unyielding, and the smell of the bong to billow out of your stereo, Linus Pauling Quartet is your band. This face-melting, idiosyncratic band has risen from a long hiatus to bring us their eighth studio album entitled Bag Of Hammers - an instrument by which listeners, partaking in the ancient ritualistic burning of the herb, can break down the walls before them and attain the pure, majestic, plenary seventh level of heaviness. LP4's career retrospective box set,Assault on the Vault of the Ancient Bonglords, will be released December 18th.
