Faustcoven – Hellfire and Funeral Bells (Nuclear War Now! Productions, 2012)

Sleeping on fucking awesome bands seems to be the story of my life lately.  My Last.fm scrobbler claims that I’d listened to Faustcoven thirty times prior to getting down with Hellfire & Funeral Bells on my computer for the first time, but I sure as heck don’t remember ever experiencing this doomed excellence prior to taking advantage of Nuclear War Now! Productions’ recent mega-sale and picking up the band’s third album on CD.  Granted, I used to listen to a lot of random things while completely shit-hammered at ungodly hours in college, so it is entirely possible that the brain cells that remember Faustcoven have been lost forever to the whiskey gods.  Whatever the case may be, after spending a great deal of time with this ghastly recording, all I can say is goddamn, have I been missing out.