Casting the Runes (Do What Thou Wilt Volume 2)

Casting The Runes –The Recorded British Abyss
 “A grimoire of infernal rituals and pubescent incantations culled from forgotten pressings, acetates and reel audio tapes offering a momentary insight into the recorded British abyss 1969 -1976”

Around 2 years ago, the seminal comp Do What Thou Wilt http://purepop1uk.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/do-what-thou-wilt.html  was released in minute quantities and caused quite a stir as it included some killer and incredibly obscure hard and heavy tracks. Well now here’s volume 2, and this time it’s a much more unified and hard hitting effort. All fuzz, doom and total Freak; the overall heaviness has been maximized and the obscurity stakes notched up quite a few levels. The self-painted/handmade appeal is the same as last time round and there are 50 deluxe and 150 standard copies, so compared to this, the Bonehead Crunchers series is positively mainstream! There is no other way to hear these great unknown tracks except here as most of them are from unreleased acetates or original master tapes, so it’s a case of getting your finger out and not delaying ordering yourself a copy. What of the contents? Barnabus are featured 3 times. The tracks are culled from an unreleased LP, and based on the songs featured here, it would be a real coup to get the LP released one day as it’s a dose of top draw heaviness. The Hashish track is real killer and Satanic Temple truly live up to their moniker. My favourite track though  is by Gabriel Ratchetts. It’s less full on than the other tracks, but it’s completely mesmerizing, like a doom laden Morning Dew (Tim Rose). Tonge (pre Depressions) are once again featured and the best known act is the Edgar Broughton Band with an unreleased and earlier take of Evil. The LP can be ordered via email occultprotometal@gmail.com

Hear a sound clip of Hashish



Hear a sound clip of Barnabus

 

Hear a sound clip of Gabriel Ratchetts