Blog: Forest Gospel

Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights (2009, Load) RIYL = Mindflayer, Hella, HEALTH When I was a freshman at Salt Lake Community College (that's right!) I wrote a rhetorical analysis of articles and reviews written about Lightning Bolt. As you might imagine, the paper highlighted the inevitably violent imagery used when describing Lightning Bolt's sound. It seemed (and still seems) almost impossible to describe what Lightning Bolt does with just a bass guitar and drums without invoking the frantic, jagged, propulsive, brutally aggressive nature of their music. However, despite the obligatory mentions of [...]