Reviews list for Skeleton Gong - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (2015)

The album's opener, "Old Man Gong", is a twelve minute synth-heavy instrumental track, coming on like a killer Hawkwind/St.Vitus hybrid. "Pyramid in my Mind" is a piece of straight-up sludgy doom and is the only track on the album that features vocals. Next is my personal favourite "Wheelchair Druid". Opening with an amazingly heavy, yet melancholy, main riff which then gives way to a short, quieter interval before launching into an excellent, spacy guitar break, before returning to the heavy riffing for the remainder of this superb track. "Nephilim" has another powerful underlying riff, overlaid with a tasty synth and guitar icing. Closer, the thirteen minute "Entombed With The Pharaohs", is a bit more of a builder, starting gently and then amping it up steadily, this is probably the albums weakest track. Admittedly, this syle of space-inflected heavy doom has probably got limited appeal, but if it is your kind of thing, there can't be many better examples.