Few recording artists aspire to the stylistic purity of Karma to Burn, and nowhere is this fact better demonstrated than on the band’s 2001 Spitfire release Almost Heathen. Even the title reinforces the near-decadence, and the strange but necessary elusiveness of artistic completeness. To say that Almost Heathen “rocks” would actually be a disservice to disc. It is more than a great record. It is form as function, the combination of craft and content, meditative, aloof, and sublime, if only for its singularity. Each of the ten non-sequentially numbered tracks do more than rock; they turn and roll, twist and slide, rattle and hum like large metal life forms, first rolling over desolate landscapes on four wheels, then standing upright, growing hair and pounding the rocky soil with the sun-bleached bones of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Sleep, and Kyuss. Picking highlights is impossible, as each “song” acts more like a minutely textured tile in an all-black mosaic, relying heavily on the listener’s reflection, leaving the assignment of meaning to individual imagination. Stoner/doom fans and everyone else who appreciates heavy music will all get a thrill from Almost Heathen, a significant hard rock accomplishment.
by Jason Anderson, allmusic
Tracklist:
01. Nineteen (04:01)
02. Thirty Eight (05:50)
03. Thirty Four (04:12)
04. Thirty Seven (05:19)
05. Thirty Nine (05:34)
06. Thirty Six (04:28)
07. Thirty Three (04:50)
08. Thirty Five (05:14)
09. Five (04:50)
10. Forty (03:39)
Bonus Tracks:
11. One (live) (04:08)
12. Three (live) (03:55)
13. Twenty Two (live) (05:27)
14. Seven (live) (03:01)
15. Eight (live) (04:04)
16. Six (live) (04:16)
EAC extraction logfile from 24. July 2014, 8:49
Karma to Burn / Almost Heathen
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Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
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Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 896 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:Program Files (x86)Exact Audio CopyFlacflac.exe
Additional command line options : -T “artist=%artist%” -T “title=%title%” -T “album=%albumtitle%” -T “date=%year%” -T “tracknumber=%tracknr%” -T “genre=%genre%” -8 %source%
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2 | 4:01.45 | 5:50.07 | 18120 | 44376
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8 | 34:17.20 | 5:14.00 | 154295 | 177844
9 | 39:31.20 | 4:50.35 | 177845 | 199629
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14 | 61:31.43 | 3:01.16 | 276868 | 290458
15 | 64:32.59 | 4:04.16 | 290459 | 308774
16 | 68:37.00 | 4:16.29 | 308775 | 328003
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