Chrome Hoof - Pre Emptive False Rapture

You’ve most likely heard of their legendary live shows - A veritable orchestra of musicians decked out in futuristic monk’s robes kicking it like some unholy hybrid of Sun Ra, ESG, Goblin, Parliament/Funkadelic and Black Sabbath, complete with choreographed dancers, actors taking vaudeville interludes, and a twelve foot tall metallic ram
dominating the dancefloor.
Chrome Hoof have finally managed to compress all the manic energy, tight prog chops and disco-ball hedonism into the most unashamedly enjoyable record you’ll hear this year. Part dizzying instrumental mastery, part mind-
buggering sci-fi fantasy, part big band ferocity - all incredible.
A little background into their Prog / Doom / Disco sound: In the early years Cathedral bassist Leo Smee was rocking to Motorhead, Sabbath, Maiden and dare we reveal Whitesnake. Heavy riffs sodden in bile and downward spirals. Later joining Trespass, then cult Doomers Cathedral - who he still plays for. His brother Milo, on the other hand, was developing a taste for groove-based music - Acid House, Hip Hop and Disco. Going on to produce freakbeat
electronics and remixes under the name Kruton, and starting 5 Mic Cluster (later to sign to Output Records) with fellow techno producer Mark Broom.
Their common ground came through their love of forward thinking bands such as Faust, King Crimson, This Heat, Brain Ticket etc. They have been consolidating seemingly opposing influences ever since - and perhaps best crystalising their work with the mon-u-frikking-mental ‘Pre-Emptive False Rapture’.
CD comes in awesome gatefold mirror-board packaging with embossed logo.

Tracklist:
1. Nordic Curse  2. Tonyte  3. Pronoid  4. Circus 9000  5. Moss Covered Obelisk  6. Leave This Ruined Husk  7. Symbolik 180°  8. Death Is Certain  9. Astral Suicide  10. Egg N’ Bass  11. Spokes Of Uridium

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