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"King Night"

They pretty much invented a genre, went away for a while, and then returned with some highly questionable onstage moves, so it wasn't clear where Salem might go next. They could either retreat into the darkness or come back with guns blazing and remind the bandwagon-jumpers who came up with this shit in the first place. If the title track from their forthcoming debut King Night is any indication, they've chosen the latter.

"King Night" is huge in the most mind-blowing sense possible. Every element, from the horses-of-hell beat to the raved out barbershop-pole synth line that snakes its way into the ruckus, is blown out to oblivion, tearing at the seams of sound until they begin to fray. These guys have a pretty killer sense of humor as well, from the slow-droned "I love you" vocal sample that kicks off "King Night" to the revelation that, yes, the basic melody of this song is a fucking choir doing "O Holy Night". All of a sudden the band's sound seems fit for a cathedral, and they're preaching the truth.

[from King Night; out 09/28/10 via IAMSOUND]

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