A long-awaited vinyl reissue of my favorite Acid King album, the dark and crushingly creepy (or is it creepily crushing?) Busse Woods, in a super limited run of 500 copies on black vinyl. Singer/guitarist Lori S. and her dope-doom juggernaut has always been one of my favorite stoner sludge outfits, dropping some of the heaviest trance riffing ever, but it's always been Lori's bewitching, spaced out moan that made me love Acid king, her druggy vocals just seem to float like plumes of ethereal bong smoke over the huge, bottom-heavy Sabbathian guitars and slow, sludgy tempos. Busse Woods was the bands second full length and originally came out in 1999 through Man's Ruin, but after that label folded at the turn of the decade the album was reissued by Small Stone with a couple of bonus tracks. This limited edition vinyl version only has the six tracks from the original release, but it's still an essential slab of ultra-heavy psychedelic sludge that anyone into bands like Warhorse, Om, Electric Wizard, Mammatus, Sleep, The Obsessed, and Sons Of Otis will adore. The album's named after a forest preserve outside of Chicago where Lori spent her formative teenage years blasting loud rock and selling drugs, and songs like "Electric Machine", "Silent Circle", "Drive Fast, Take Chances", and the title track all reek of weed, beat-up dubbed cassettes of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Hallow's Victim and teenage devil worship. Each of these songs might center around a single riff, maybe two, but they're the heaviest riffs ever, massive, bass-heavy grooves and downtuned fuzzbomb guitar uncoiling as ridiculously hypnotic riff mantras that seem to plod on forever, everything surrounded with an eerie autumnal chill. Beyond crushing. And I still think that Acid King are what Sleep would have sounded like if they had been fronted by Joan Jett.