Ghoultown

Best of the Dead West, Volume One

(Monstro Productions)

Few bands have accomplished that which distinguishes Ghoultown: the formulation of a truly singular persona. Who else unites powerful, guitar-fronted blasts with spaghetti western-flourishes and beyond-boot hill sagas (and does it with dash)? Concussive thunderation on this 17-track retrospective never relents, pressing its dominative ways with urgency. All the frenetic while, Count Lyle holds court as only he can -- ominously, and with declarative forcibleness.

Recommended: "Southern Son," "Werewolves On Wheels," "Bullets Don't Argue," "Dead Outlaw," "Against a Crooked Sky," "Mistress Of the Dark," "Bury Them Deep," "Drink With the Living Dead," "Bood, Bullets, and Whiskey," "Evil Eye" (digital single), "Walkin' Through the Desert (With a Crow)," "Under the Phantom Moon," "Devil, Liquor, and Gunsmoke" (new)

Video: "Devil, Liquor, and Gunsmoke"

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