ATP! Album Review: The Casket Lottery – Real Fear

There was no time more appropriate than Halloween time for The Casket Lottery to release their latest full-length. As their first album in nearly a decade, "Real Fear" might have been terrifying to release. But instead of the pressure to show-off a newfound maturity, or to make a major impact and make up for lost time, The Casket Lottery have taken what could have been fear and translated it into a narrative album without the need to interpret it against the backdrop of a “comeback".

Much of the fear put into the album comes out in a heaviness heard immediately on 'Blood on the Handle', whose minute-long intro anchors the album down from the start. 'In the Branches' knows that “heavy” doesn’t necessarily mean fast and loud, instead manipulating fear into darker themes of black snakes eating baby birds. A grainy bass, selective screaming into ranges with a Jim Ward sound and a piano which is not quite out of tune but just unrefined enough creates some major discomfort in sound.

Second Nature Sampler Released Through Vinyl Collective

Second Nature has launched a new sampler through Vinyl Collective which has 24 tracks including songs by The Casket Lottery, The Blood Brothers, Reggie and The Full Effect and Grade.