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GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC - Sorcerer

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zecko When Marie Curie moves through the walls, you‘ll get this Eerie Family/Hex Dispensers mix, where a ray of sunshine fills the dark. Love it ! Favorite track: Radium Girls.

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The HEX DISPENSERS got shipwrecked off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the circumstances of which remain a mystery to this day. Stranded on a former Devil's Island sanctuary, Dave Bessenhoffer (guitar, vocals) formed the GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC along with the water-logged skeletons of Alex Cuervo (synths,backing vocals) and Alyse Mervosh (drums,backing vocals), both joining Dave in Texas doom-pop purveyors HEX DISPENERS and are themselves an EERIE FAMILY. This record trods down similar haunted sonic pathways and inhales your last signs of life with ghostly grave-wave rock. Entitled SORCERER, the songs drag you for a death surf ride into the frigid waters of the Pacific.
Lighthouse recordings by the ghost of Mark Ryan (MARKED MEN, MIND SPIDERS). Sorcerer Sanatorium details: 100 rooms with orange walls. 400 black rooms, ravens circle above at 33 rpm.

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	1.	Numbers 00:58
	2.	Patterns 02:44
	3.	Thru Walls 03:33
	4.	Radium Girls 03:11
	5.	Crawl, Worm, Crawl 03:52
	6.	Berlin 04:19
	7.	We All Can Keep A Secret 04:28
	8.	Scanner 04:01
	9.	Anthem 03:17

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razorcake.org (US) #135 April 2024 Haunting doesn’t always come in the form of ghosts. It can be a feeling that simply doesn’t leave you. GRAVEYEARD OF THE PACIFIC haunts me in that way. Sure, there’s the undeniable spectre of The HEX DISPENSERS floating through this album like a low mist between the tombstones of cemetery in autumn. The involvement of Alex Cuervo and Alyse Mervosh makes it impossible to dismiss the connection, but this is no reanimated corpse. Along with Dave Bessenhoffer they have created something unique and special. This is the haunting I’m talking about. The music sways through a kind of ethereal garage rock. Gothic garage? I’m not sure about labels, but I can say that the album mesmerizes me from start to finish. While I have been listening to this since it came out digitally last summer, I’d like to thank the good folks at ALIEN SNATCH! for putting a physical version of this out into the world. This is a worthy addition to any record collection (TN)

ox-fanzine.de #173 APR 2024 Was machen eigentlich die HEX DISPENSERS? Sie tauschen ein wenig die Rollen, stellen die Garage vor selbige, bestellen sich ein paar Synthesizer und nennen sich SORCERER, der Rest bleibt beim Alten. Also immer noch düstere Sounds, irgendwo zwischen Lovecraft, Tentakeln, Nebel und einen unbeschreiblichen Grauen, das in erster Linie in deinem Kopf abläuft. Der Gesang wechselt von Alex Cuervo zu Dave Bessenhoffer und irgendwie wäre das eine Platte gewesen, die ich bei AUTOGRAMM 1:1 für eine Neuinterpretation der HEX DISPENSERS exakt so in Auftrag gegeben hätte. Die Handschrift ist nach wie vor unverkennbar, aber hier schwingen auch LOST SOUNDS in entspannt und ebenso relaxte DESTRUCTION UNIT mit. Mehr Synthesizer, weniger Gitarre, mehr Chöre, mehr Spannungsbögen, vom Splatterfilm zum Psychothriller, in dem man weniger sieht, sich aber mehr fürchtet. Wer die HEX DISPENSERS liebte, wird SORCERER vergöttern, es sei denn, es gibt eine unbehandelte Gitarrenfixierung. Es gibt glücklicherweise auch noch einen Horror- Punk, der abseits der MISFITS-Derivate extrem gut funktioniert und gedeiht. (KS)

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