Death Valley Girls Darkness Rains Colored Vinyl Edition

At the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and
guitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Funhouse's sonic exorcisms, ZZ Top's
desert-blasted riffage, and Sabbath's occult menace. On their third album Darkness Rains,
Death Valley Girls churn out the hypercharged scuzzy rock every generation yearns for,
but there is a more subversive force percolating beneath the surface that imbues the
band with an exhilarating cosmic energy. Album opener "More Dead" is a rousing wake
up call, with a hypnotic guitar riff and an intoxicating blown-out solo underscoring
Bloomgarden's proclamation that you're "more dead than alive." The pace builds with
"(One Less Thing) Before I Die", a distillate of Detroit's proto-punk sound. At track
three, Death Valley Girls hit their stride with "Disaster (Is What We're After)", a rager
that takes the most boisterous moments off Exile On Main Street and injects it with
Zeppelin's devil's-note blues. Darkness Rains retains its intoxicating convocations across
ten tracks, climaxing with the hypnotic guitar drones and cult-like chants of "TV In Jail
On Mars."