Black age blues

"Black Age Blues is strongest when it suggests that the members and their musical relationships have evolved during Goatsnake's recess, especially when the past presents new stylistic tension ... Through little fault of Goatsnake's own, listening to Black Age Blues can sometimes feel like watching wizened blues musicians play the music of their now-distant youth. The style is familiar enough to be comforting, but it's also inherently trite and redundant".

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""A Killing Blues" has enough shifting dynamics and detailed sonics to make its seven-plus minutes compelling. "Grandpa Jones" sticks closest to the stoner rock cum doom metal formula, but even here, unexpected vocal exchanges between Stahl and Dem Preacher's Daughters amid changing tonalities in the guitar and bassline in the bridge make it simultaneously grander and uglier. Why fans had to wait 15 years for Black Age Blues is hard to say; things take as long as they take. But this is an exceptional addition to Goatsnake's catalog; it's a doomsday boogie album for the ages".

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