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Label: Metal Mind Records

Price: 27.90 Euro

Karma to Burn was a desert rock/psychedelic rock band from Morgantown, West Virginia (US) Some early reports on Karma To Burn stated that the band had 'vocalist problems'. The truth of the matter is the band is at heart an instrumental band. The band had experimented with vocalists before (ex-Kyuss frontman John Garcia briefly worked with them), but a vocalist (Jason Jarosz) was recruited for their debut only to satisfy their record label. The vocalist departed soon afterwards, and the band reverted to its preferred status as an instrumental trio, as with all the consternation around the singer, hardly anybody noticed the drummer change. In April and May of 1997 Karma To Burn toured Europe. Among other events, they played at the illustrious metal festival Dynamo Open Air, where they met John Garcia and his new band SLO-BURN again. In an unannounced special set, Karma To Burn jammed with John Garcia, who did some vocal parts for them. In August and September of 1997, Karma To Burn toured the USA. They opened nine shows on the Corrosion Of Conformity/Drain S.T.H. tour and, later, ten shows for Clutch. During that tour Clutch's Neil Fallon and COC's Pepper Keenan jumped on the stage to perform with Karma To Burn a cover version of ZZ-Top's 'La Grange'. Thus they both joined the exclusive group of people that have sung with Karma To Burn...In the Fall of 1997, K2B parted way with their label. Roadrunner didn't want instrumental records and K2B was an instrumental band. In June 1998 Karma To Burn's drummer Chuck Nicholas left the band and was replaced by Rob Oswald. Musically, the band is tough to describe - they are closest to stoner rock, but their instrumental nature and tendency to experiment place them a bit beyond the standards of that genre. With their uncompromising instrumental sound, echoing that of such desert rock bands as Kyuss and The Obsessed, it was not an easy band to fully understand, but surely an intriguing one. The band unofficially disbanded in mid 2002.

Tracklist:
Karma To Burn
1. Ma Petite Mort,
2. Bobbi, Bobbi, Bobbi - I'm Not God,
3. Patty Hearst's Closet Mantra,
4. Mt. Penetrator,
5. Eight,
6. Appalachian Woman,
7. Twenty Four Hours,
8. Six-Gun Sucker Punch,
9. Thirteen,
10. (Waltz Of The) Playboy Pallbearers,
11. Twin sisters And Half A Bottle Of Bourbon,
12. Six,
Bonus tracks:
13. Twenty Eight (live)*,
14. Thirty Four (live)*,
15. Nine (live)*,
16. Twenty (live)*,
17. Six (live)*,
* bootleg recordings from Utrecht (NL) 07.03.2000

Wild Wonderful Purgatory
1. Twenty,
2. Twenty Eight,
3. Thirty,
4. Thirty One,
5. Twenty Nine,
6. Thirty Two,
7. Twenty Five,
8. Twenty Four,
9. One,
10. Three,
11. Seven,
12. Eight,
Bonus tracks:
13. Thirty *,
14. Thirty Tree *,
15. Thirty Two *,
16. Twenty *,
17. Twenty Nine (live)**,
18. Thirty One (live)**,
* tracks taken from EP 30.33.32.20 ** bootleg recordings from Utrecht (07.03.2000)

Almost Heathen
1. Nineteen,
2. Thirty Eight,
3. Thirty Four,
4. Thirty Seven,
5. Thirty Nine,
6. Thirty Six,
7. Thirty Three,
8. Thirty Five,
9. Five,
10. Forty,
Bonus tracks:
11. One (live)*,
12. Three (live)*,
13. Twenty Two (live)*,
14. Seven (live)*,
15. Eight (live)*,
16. Six (live)*,
* live Dynamo Festival 1997 – used under permission from KINK FM