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Goblin Cock to Release Necronomidonkeykongimicon Sept. 2

Posted in Whathaveyou on July 7th, 2016 by JJ Koczan

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Fuck yes. You should know that I’m not putting this post together at work, and that’s because we’re talking about Goblin Cock. The intermittent doom rock project of Rob Crow (Pinback, scores of others) will release its third album, Necronomidonkeykongimicon, via Joyful Noise on Sept. 2. The title? Righteous. The streaming song “Something Haunted?” Righteous. The album? Can’t fucking wait.

I mean that. Goblin Cock are obviously a goof on a lot of levels, but songwriting has never been one of them. The band’s last record, Come with Me if You Want to Live (discussed here), came out in 2009, and I still have the mp3s on my phone and the CD on my shelf. They toured for that album (review here) and they’ll tour for Necronomidonkeykongimicon as well, for those lucky enough to know to show up.

Which, by the time September gets here, should include you.

From the PR wire:

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Goblin Cock Announces New LP Necronomidonkeykongimicon, Out September 2nd via Joyful Noise

Stream “Something Haunted”, Fall US Tour Dates Announced

Goblin Cock has announced a new LP, Necronomidonkeykongimicon, out September 2nd via Joyful Noise Recordings. A protest album that the band describes as “a crushingly brutal Dear John letter to society,” it’s currently available for pre-order.

For a first taste of the album, you can stream opener “Something Haunted” via Soundcloud.

Goblin Cock is a band from beyond time, beyond space, beyond our naive concept of dimension in metal. Since before our pathetic “god” had supposedly “created” us and our kind, Lord Phallus was hunkered in a cybertimeship/fun dungeon, skating the layers of what was considered “true metal” in all societies and in all generations. Eventually, His Majesty realized that he really didn’t care and launched a full-scale war against bland metal with emphasis on ACTUALLY HAVING A GOOD TIME!

2005’s Bagged and Boarded was the first assault on our laughable five senses (Lord Phallus and his kind have 32), followed by 2009’s sonically intense Come With Me if You Want to Live. The band’s upcoming release — their most concise album to date — invokes the spirit of Pure Fun while appeasing their love of Doomed Art.

Necronomidonkeykongimicon is an auditory tome of such importance that it needs to be experienced before the Secret Bastards find a way to marginalize it out of existence forever.

Goblin Cock will tour the US this fall in support of the new record — see below for a list of upcoming shows.

Goblin Cock on Tour:
9/14: Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
9/15: El Paso, TX @ Bowie Feathers
9/16: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar n Grill
9/17: Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
9/18: Houston, TX @ Rudyards
9/20: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Purgatory
9/21: Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle – Backroom
9/22: Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter
9/23: Washington, DC @ DC9
9/24: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts – Black Box
9/25: Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
9/27: Providence, RI @ The Parlour
9/28: Allston, MA @ Great Scott
9/29: Syracuse, NY @ Funk N Waffles
9/30: Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig
10/1: Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi-Fi
10/2: Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
10/3: Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
10/6: Spokane, WA @ The Observatory
10/7: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon – Funhouse
10/8: Portland, OR @ Ash Street Saloon
10/10: San Francisco, CA @ Social Hall SF
10/11: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
10/14: San Diego, CA @ Casbah

Track Listing:
1. Something Haunted
2. Montrossor
3. Stewpot’s Package
4. Youth Pastoral
5. Flumed
6. Bothered
7. Your Watch
8. The Undeer
9. Struth
10. The Dorse
11. World Is Moving
12. Island, Island
13. Buck

https://www.facebook.com/GoblinCock/
https://robcrow.bandcamp.com/
http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/necronomidonkeykongimicon

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(More) Goblin Cock on a Wednesday

Posted in Bootleg Theater on June 2nd, 2010 by JJ Koczan

I don’t care if you think Goblin Cock are ironic hipster metal. It just doesn’t matter to me. I think they fucking rule and am not going to apologize for it.

Today I have two interviews (one down, one to go), tickets to the ball game tonight, and I found out a couple hours ago about a death in the family. No, I’m not related to Jared Koston of Venomin James. It was an aunt. You should still donate to his wife and kids if you haven’t yet.

Not things I mention looking for sympathy — you’ll notice comments are turned off for this post — but facts of life which can and will obstruct a normal day’s posting. Still, I’ll do the best I can and hope you’ll join me in rocking out, sans shame, to Goblin Cock‘s “We’ve Got a Bleeder” from 2009’s Come with Me if You Want to Live.

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TFFH09 #5: Goblin Cock, Come with Me if You Want to Live

Posted in Features, Whathaveyou on June 16th, 2009 by JJ Koczan

Don't know where or when this shot was taken, but it pretty much sums up the live show.It got mixed reviews and, like its predecessor, flew under the radar of most heads, but Goblin Cock‘s Come with Me if You Want to Live — released in February — has some of the coolest songs I’ve heard in the last six months. What’s best about it is there is no filler. Goblin Cock packs eight minutes’ worth of doom into a three minute song Rob says hi.and makes it catchy to boot. Plus, there’s practically nothing serious about it, but it’s not irono-douchebaggery either. The album hits just the right balance of humor and killer riffs.

The hooded and masked project of Pinback/The Ladies/Optiganally Yours (and solo) singer/guitarist Rob Crow, Goblin Cock strikes a rarely achieved balance of dooming out and having fun that appeals, admittedly, to the skinny-pantsed, thick-rimmed post-grad set (Crow‘s pedigree is also a factor), but quality songwriting and a lack of chic posturing makes Come with Me if You Want to Live more than just forgettable hipster metal pablum. As I said in my live review of their show in NYC a while back, the thing about hipster metal is that people make money playing it. One listen and you know there’s no way Goblin Cock are bringing in the cash.

If you haven’t yet, give the record a shot. For your ease in doing so, here’s “Ode to Billy Jack,” one of my favorites from Come with Me if You Want to Live.

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Goblin Cock on a Wednesday

Posted in Reviews on February 12th, 2009 by JJ Koczan

goblincock_021109_img_4045Last night at New York City‘s Highline Ballroom, bedecked in doomrobe and with powdered beard, Lord Phallus of Goblin Cock — whose alter ego happens to be Rob Crow of Pinback, Optiganally Yours and sundry other underground indie units fame — led his five-man army on a riff march up and down Witch Mountain with a tongue-in-cheek homage to classic occult metal. Goblin Cock. Seriously, man. Goblin Cock.

Hipster outfits Orphan and Warship opened, and there are those who would put Goblin Cock in an irono-metal category, but I argue there’s nothing ironic about what Crow & Co. have going on. They know damn well they’re being ridiculous, and they’re having fun with it. Witness keyboardist Loki Sinjuggler, whose constant, ceaseless throwing of the horns started out as kind of funny but by the end of the set was downright admirable (your arm’s got to get sore after a while doing that the whole time). That’s not irony. That’s comedy.

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