Another bunch of pot smoking monsters has arisen from the sweat leaf smoke to doom the planet, and GORILLA MONSOON have already been making a lot of noise on their mission. Since 2001, 2 demos and a split single (together with Weed In The Head) have come out, in 2005 the band was the winner of the Wacken Metal Battle (and so, of a record deal too) and played at the Doom Shall Rise festival. So it’s high time for the first album. The extremely long and viscous intro Declaration Of Damnation already shows the high Desert Rock factor that characterizes most parts of the album. Associations from Kyuss till Crowbar are not entirely wrong, although the totally distorted vocals on Delay Priest may make you doubt such comparisons. The singer calls himself “Jack Sabbath” – absolutely no idea why… :) The Damage King is inexorably crawling towards doom, only held up sometimes by his own ponderousness. On his way, he sometimes discovers some modern metal guitar riffs (title-track, Law & Order), starts a Death Revolution with uncouth brute force, then again, in deep desperation, screams for the Final Salvation, all the time carrying several kinds of spacy elements with himself. Some moments make you hope for a little Rock’n’Roll atmosphere, but before you finally get it on War To The Wimps, it’s often drowned in mountains of sand and lava after a short time (just listen to the Down Song). The Heaviness of the last song Heavier Than Europe (HEAVIER than Europe – is that possible at all? Ha ha ha…) finally makes some damn bursts, before everything disappears again in the sweat leaf smoke. Okay, I think I have added every cliché of a Doom/Stoner – review, so no doubt should be left about what’s to expect. Obviously, people like GORILLA MONSOON are really born to doom.