Place of Skulls: Victor Griffin Returns to Fill Your Autumn with DOOOM
I don’t care if he is a Jeezaroo, Victor Griffin plays DOOOM. And that ain’t your standard variety two ‘o’ doom either, it’s DOOOM, all caps, three ‘o’s. This guy’s the fucking king of it.
Place of Skulls, who once upon a time released one of the greatest doom albums of all time in the form of With Vision, are back in September with the new album, As a Dog Returns. It’s their first record in four years, so you know Mr. Griffin‘s been putting riffs in his back pocket for a while now.
For those willing to pick it up, here’s what the PR wire’s puttin’ down:
Knoxville, Tennessee doom metallers Place of Skulls are pleased to announce the upcoming release of their long-awaited fourth full-length, As a Dog Returns. The follow-up to 2006’s The Black is Never Far was recorded at Lakeside Studios in Knoxville by Travis Wyrick and founding guitarist/vocalist Victor Griffin (Pentagram, Death Row, Cathedral, Joe Hasselvander) with drums recorded and engineered by Mike Dearing.
Said Griffin of the band’s latest output: “The new album As a Dog Returns picks up dynamically where The Black is Never Far left off. Where The Black… album had a bit more of a depressive theme lyrically, the new album tends to look to a brighter outcome. Musically we’ve gone further than ever before with dynamics and production. Though all the Place of Skulls’ brand of heaviness you would expect is certainly there, there’s a nice ebb and flow with quieter parts which tend to set a very dramatic and melancholy mood at times to the overall album.
“With every album we’ve done,” he continues, “our growth and progression has been evident, and this new release is no different. I’m really enjoying the growth of my songwriting as time goes by. I don’t feel as if I have anything to prove so I think the writing gets more open, honest, and genuine with every release.
We’re very excited to finally get a new album out and hit the road again! Look for As As a Dog Returns to be available in late September!”
As a Dog Returns track listing:
1. Timeless Hearts
2. Breath of Life
3. Though He Slay Me
4. Psalm
5. Dayspring
6. The Maker
7. He’s God
8. Desperation
9. As a Dog Returns
