This ambitious sort-of-supergroup (featuring members of Electric Wizard, Gonga, and several other bands) offered 200 TONS as a single-disc alternative to its sprawling, two-album counterpart, THE RESURRECTION & NIGHT RAIDERS.
And listeners should hardly mind LUCK’s brevity at that.
From the concise, Kyuss-like boogie-stomp of “Rise Up And Fight” and Pink Floyd-esque wistfulness of “Littlestep” to the Mid-Eastern heavy psych of “444,” Crippled Black Phoenix still provide a versatile palette of stoner metal, ambient experimentation, and moody post-rock.