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Lightning Bolt

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Lightning Bolt picked up where Godheadsilo left off and then added an unhealthy does of caffeine and barbiturates to the sound. It's your classic bass/drum duo gone haywire. The riffs are often anthem-like, repetitious, infectious and as loud and noisy as possible. Your body responds to the music by doing everything much faster (thus driving a car is hazardous, I know, believe me... I know!).

I had heard of Lightning Bolt for a while, but it was a friend who actually made me sit down and listen to it while I was on vacation. He had been making me listen to a few other artists that same night, some of them interesting, some less, but it was when he put Lightning Bolt on that I really started paying attention. I borrowed the CDs, put them on my iPod and once I was back home and got a pay, I ordered all three CDs available at the time from Amazon.com. They've become the equivalent of a cup of coffee for me. Every time I feel down, lazy or under the weather, I put on Wonderful Rainbow, drink a cup of real coffee and then go ahead with what I should have been doing in the first place.

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Album Cover Lightning Bolt
Label: Load Records
Release: 1999
Format: CD
Cat. no: LOAD 026

Song list:

  1. Into The Valley (7/4/98) (10:46)
  2. Murk Hike (3/98) (3:04)
  3. Caught Deep In The Zone (7/28/97) (3:13)
  4. Fleeing The Valley Of Whirling Knives (10:37)
  5. Mistake (4/19/98) (4:04)
  6. Zone (7/28/97) (32:46)
  7. And Beyond (Spring 98) (14:22)


Album Cover Ride The Skies
Label: Load Records
Release: 2001
Format: CD
Cat. no: LOAD 031

Song list:

  1. Forcefield (4:01)
  2. Saint Jacques (4:13)
  3. 13 Monsters (2:48)
  4. Ride The Sky (4:27)
  5. The Faire Folk (6:16)
  6. Into The Mist 2 (3:21)
  7. Wee Ones Parade (5:18)
  8. Rotator (5:08)


Album Cover Wonderful Rainbow
Label: Load Records
Release: 2003
Format: CD
Cat. no: LOAD 041

Song list:

  1. Hello Morning (0:55)
  2. Assassins (3:43)
  3. Dracula Mountain (5:10)
  4. 2 Towers (7:08)
  5. On Fire (4:42)
  6. Crown Of Storms (5:09)
  7. Longstockings (3:17)
  8. Wonderful Rainbow (1:29)
  9. 30,000 Monkies (3:49)
  10. Duel In The Deep (6:16)


Album Cover Hypermagic Mountain
Label: Load Records
Release: 2005
Format: CD
Cat. no: LOAD 078

Song list:

  1. 2 Morro Morro Land (3:43)
  2. Captain Caveman (3:19)
  3. Birdy (3:06)
  4. Riffwraiths (3:03)
  5. Megaghost (6:01)
  6. Magic Mountain (4:55)
  7. Dead Cowboy (7:58)
  8. Bizarro Zarro Land (4:47)
  9. Mohawk Windmill (9:38)
  10. Bizarrobike (5:18)
  11. Infinity Farm (2:46)
  12. No Rest For The Obsessed (2:10)