Long Haired Locusts

by Godcaster

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schwarzwelter driving rhythm, goofy synth work - a psych-punk treat with a bonus falsetto. godcaster rips, and long haired locusts is a great start to what im praying will be many more loud and fun works.

GODCASTER ROX!!! Favorite track: Bingo Bodies (Long Haired Locusts).

mister_leo_z weirdest christian rock you'll ever hear. i fucking love it.

duffsea000 this album came out of nowhere, and then claimed the spot for favorite album of the year. it's like a music collage, I can hear the influence of countless bands, buy it still comes together in a way that is wholly original to Godcaster. can't wait to see them progress as a band.

threatmidler This album is a refreshingly unique and strange experience; like peanut butter and pickles on a cheeseburger or taking your first Whip-it.

Lars Gotrich Magma, but make it an oblong prog-rock gospel rave-up. Favorite track: Don't Make Stevie Wonder.

mist I, for one, welcome the rise of the rein of Godcaster. amen !!

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Album artwork by lead singer/guitarist Judson Kolk

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Album artwork by lead singer/guitarist Judson Kolk

First 50 pre-orders come with an exclusive book of unique drawings by Judson Kolk.

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1.	Even Your Blood Is Electric 03:53	buy track
2.	Apparition of The Virgin Mary In My Neighborhood 02:43	buy track
3.	Sassy Stick Boy 02:05	buy track
4.	Dirtbike Bike (Vaccine Girl) 01:49	buy track
5.	Don't Make Stevie Wonder 03:51	buy track
6.	Serpentine Carcass Crux Birth 01:56	buy track
7.	Christ In Capsule Form 00:57	buy track
8.	Blister Intercom 02:24	buy track
9.	Escape From the Challenger Deep 05:23	buy track
10.	Sexy Heffer 02:00	buy track
11.	All The Feral Girls In The Universe 02:56 video	buy track
12.	The Skull!!! 01:21	buy track
13.	Bingo Bodies (Long Haired Locusts) 04:32	buy track
14.	Outro 02:10	buy track

about

Spit and jitter in a revelatory stance. Profundicate your masticators and whisper "so longs" into the deepest dearths. Out of the spout, out of the flash, out of the gnash and fleeting cry comes Godcaster with Long Haired Locusts.

The venerated and shining troupe of David McFaul (keys, vox), Von Lee (flute, vox), Lindsay Dobbs (trombone, vox), Bruce Ebersole (bass guitar), Sam Pickard (drums), and Judson Kolk (vox, guitar) transmit a brand of devout, intense rock and pop that thrashes through stages of blissful, comforting highs and devastating lows, preaching the convergence of the holy and the heretical. This is best displayed on songs like “Apparation of The Virgin Mary in My Neighborhood,” where the anxious exertion of sharp, frenetic guitars and throbbing, cutting drums follow the increasingly quickening pace of Kolk’s narrative of trepidation before the tension grows too tight and snaps into violent, cathartic outbursts. Similar nerves are addressed and released throughout Long Haired Locusts—the navigation of celestial beauty and corporeal rot is omnipresent and important. “Serpentine Carcus Crux Birth” and “Christ in Capsule Form” are both bouncing and vibrant, while “Blister Intercom” is lush with rejoicing choruses that accompany the marching guitars and drums, and songs like “All the Feral Girls in the Universe” naturally builds upon an undeniably danceable composition until it reaches, like the album as a whole reaches, a phenomenally euphoric peak.

Long Haired Locusts, recorded live to tape by pop-mysticist Ryan Power in a Philadelphia basement, is a no-frills showcase of Godcaster’s essence and best consumed at high volume with as few breakable objects as possible within a flailing extremities reach. And as well as Long Haired Locusts captures the exultant frenzy of Godcaster, it is best to see for yourself the type of magic that bubbles even further beneath the surface that no physical recording could possibly capture. The visceral intensity of any of Godcaster’s public ceremonies of performance, small or large, further highlights the immediacy and impact of their guttural, primal expression and unveils more of their enigmatic presence. The thunderous crash of symbols, the slicing guitars, the driving bass, and the angelic cacophony of keys, flute, and voice—especially that of Von Lee, whose crystalline falsetto has a particularly paralyzing magnificence live—leave very few non-believers in their wake.

Godcaster creates their own kind of protean piety based on the exaltation of movement and sound and Long Haired Locusts is the first of their sacred texts. It is a statement of purpose and acknowledgment of future growth beyond the limits of these sounds or any others. Whether you praise be or shutter in fear, we must all bear witness to the mythic rise of the music and the movement that is Godcaster.

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released September 4, 2020

Produced, mixed, and mastered by Ryan Power
Cover art by Judson Kolk

Judson Kolk - vocals, guitar
Bruce Ebersole - guitar, bass, vocals, glockenspiel
David Mcfaul - keys, vocals
Sam Pickard - drums
Von Lee - vocals, flute, tambourine
Ryan Power - vocals
Philip DiCicco - vocals
Blake Hammond - vocals

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