Spiritual Beggars – Spiritual Beggars

1. Yearly Dying
2. Pelekas
3. The Space In Between
4. If This Is All
5. Under Silence
6. Magnificent Obsession
7. Blind Mountain
8. If You Should Leave
9. Nowhere To Go
10. Sour Stains
11. Left Brain Ambassadors
12. Save Your Soul
13. Until The Morning
14. Angel Of Betrayal
15. Per Aspera Ad Astra
16. Blessed
17. Let The Magic Talk
18. The Goddess
19. Mr White
20. Broken Morning
21. Monster Astronauts
22. Sad Queen Boogie
23. Mushroom Tea Girl
24. Inside Charmer
25. Trouble In My Head
“Last April the album “Earth Blues” came out, on which the Swedish band with sleep around main man (Arch Enemy) Michael Amott likes to surround himself with essence and amazing guitar ornaments of times gone by (seventies era). Nowadays the band is truly skilled in recycling that sixties and seventies sound in their own compositions, but once they started as stoner rock band. When I got to hear “Another Way To Shine” and the superior successor “Mantra III” it happened to be a Walhalla of sounds that unite past and future. At that time they were quite akin and same wavelength of Orange Goblin. But it seems that they have been active earlier in their primordial challenges. Mark my words, it results in a pretty fine release. Originally it was a release of thirty minutes long, a kind of statement and hobby project of Carcass guitarist Mike Amott, launched at the world but worth checking out, even now. They really cut loose, but have attention for more emotional passages as well. That’s probably why evoked that kind of blues feel by most of our readers from the very outset. This appeared to be very important for the next steps in their evolution. These first steps to global recognition were already graced with a re-release by Regain Records in 2002 On the first CD we can obviously listen to those first thirty minutes effort, enlarged by bonus material that had seen the light in 2002 as well. But Century Media adds an extra CD to it half of October with “not to be missing” versions of many songs. We are dealing with demo versions of the songs in this case. The differential approach on the lookout of final versions makes it really interesting, although it might only be worth purchasing for diehard fans. At that time Michael Amott, drummer Ludwig Witt and Spice as singer were part of this band.”
Lords Of Metal, Vera Matthijssens
3LP album
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