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Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops



8.6 | 264 votes |
Release date: 8 August 1994
Style: Doom metal, Sludge metal

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01. The Blue
02. Tranquilized
03. Cheap Vodka
04. Finger Paintings Of The Insane
05. Jezebel
06. Scream Of The Butterfly
07. Dr. Seuss Is Dead
08. Dope Fiend
09. Toubabo Koomi
10. God Machine
11. The Mortician's Flame
12. What Color Is Death?
13. The Bones Of Baby Dolls
14. Cassie Eats Cockroaches

Top 20 albums of 1994: 10

Additional info
Label: Rotten Records

Produced by Spike Cassidy.
Co-produced by Greg Troyner and Acid Bath.
Digitally recorded and mixed at Side One, Metairie,
LA by Spike Cassidy and Greg Troyner.
Digitaly mastered at Future Disc by Eddie Shyer and Spike Cassidy.
All music and lyrics by Acid Bath/Subversive Noise [BMI].

The cover art ("Pogo the Clown #15" / "Skull Clown #171") was painted by infamous serial killer-cannibal-pedophile-necrophile John Wayne Gacy while he was in prison.

Remastered in 2004 by Eddy Schreyer at Oasis Mastering, then re-released as CD and double coloured LP (red & blue).

A video was made for "Toubabo Koomi".

Staff review by
Lucas
Rating:
9.3
"She smiles like a child with flowers in her hair. With blood on her hands, into the sun she stares. She feels it die, I heard her cry."

Welcome in the world of Acid Bath. A sick and violent world, where serial killers roam the streets and drugs are an absolute necessity to escape the vile state of mind so often called "reality". This five-headed monster is violent, depressed, pissed-off, drunk, on acid, raging, insane, dead and rotting, and all at the same time. "When The Kite String Pops" is their message to the world.

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published 06.07.2008 | Comments (37)

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Comments: 58   Visited by: 638 users
03.06.2012 - 20:23
Rating: 9
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
Wow, this is beautiful.
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14:22 - Marcel Hubregtse
I do your mum

DESTROY DRUM TRIGGERS
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20.11.2012 - 18:37
megadeath13
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Absolute masterpiece!
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13.02.2014 - 16:26
mordecai
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Awesome... and incredible album!
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30.04.2014 - 12:21
Rating: 10
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by Reality03 on 29.04.2014 at 22:43

Dr Seuss is dead is such a disturbing song but in a great way. I go back to this album quite often, just for that song alone. An instant classic.


This album is "mood on" whenever you get fatigued from job hours. I never removed this album from my pad 'cause I still feel charged up sitting with shitty employees and fat-fucking-ass boss while turning up this fucking monster.

Sometimes I compelled to pick up a sledgehammer and destroy the part above neck in bloods and pieces. Well, I'm good controlling my emotions.
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31.07.2014 - 02:49
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Fuck it if some people won't believe me, it ain't nothing too difficult to believe either. D:
Anyways I kind of grew up with this album. Listened the first time when I was 15 (first I said 14 but I did the math recently and realised my mistakes but yeah definitely 15 at the time).
I discovered their name thanks to a thread around here. i think it was one of those metal polls between Acid Bath and Eyehategod. The names and the descriptions provided by the users made me want to check them out. So I found Acid Bath's myspace and the 3 tracks they had were Jezebel, Scream Of The Butterfly and Cassie Eats Cockroaches. And shit... That was it or me. Heaviest, most corrosive and most emotional shit I've heard at the time... An opinion that I hold to this very day. Both Acid Bath and Eyehategod are still my favorite sludge bands of all time but this album in particular takes the cake for me. Definitely my most favorite album of the 90s. Love every second of it, know all the lyrics by heard and I was a bit too obssessed by it when i first heard it. Using youtube like crack for all the tracks I could find until I got hold of the album not too long afterwards. Extremely influential for me in terms of how my tastes developed right after.

So yeah... This album can take my post number 15000.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 03:01
Rating: 6
Ilham
Giant robot
I believe you for the age part. I still am sure there was something before this album that you were addicted to.
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31.07.2014 - 03:06
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Ilham on 31.07.2014 at 03:01
I believe you for the age part. I still am sure there was something before this album that you were addicted to.

Hmmmm, you COULD blame the memory on this one as well. It sounds fair but I'm pretty damn sure I never listened to an album as much previous to this one.

Edit: How dare you show up here with that rating? I jate you.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 04:59
Lit.
Account deleted
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 03:06

Edit: How dare you show up here with that rating? I jate you.

Burn the non-believer(s)!
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31.07.2014 - 05:03
Rating: 6
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 03:06

Edit: How dare you show up here with that rating? I jate you.

Oh yeah I didn't see that.

Six is very generous for an album I tried to listen to at least ten times in almost as many years and never could bear until the end.
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31.07.2014 - 05:21
Rating: 6
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Oh someone agrees with my rating =P
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- Reimu Hakurei
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31.07.2014 - 05:24
Rating: 10
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by Ilham on 31.07.2014 at 05:03

Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 03:06

Edit: How dare you show up here with that rating? I jate you.

Six is very generous for an album I tried to listen to at least ten times in almost as many years and never could bear until the end.


Morocco girl.

It might sound lame and evaporated but I'd think you forget to put out cotton buds. No, that doesn't imply this record shouldn't get low ratings or any castigation but what i've experienced from your side(especially when it comes to rating an album) you'd forgot to plug out your earbuds everytime. Hope, it make a difference....

Oh, have a great day.
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31.07.2014 - 05:30
Rating: 6
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 31.07.2014 at 05:24

Morocco girl.

It might sound lame and evaporated but I'd think you forget to put out cotton buds. No, that doesn't imply this record shouldn't get low ratings or any castigation but what i've experienced from your side(especially when it comes to rating an album) you'd forgot to plug out your earbuds everytime. Hope, it make a difference....

Oh, have a great day.

Annoying guy.

It might sound lame and evaporated, but I just expressed my lack of love for an album. Now, that doesn't imply you should take it personally or make comments on my voting habits. I've experience from your side (especially when it comes to being a condescending douche) that you never failed to deliver in that department. Hope that makes a difference...

Oh, have a crappy day.
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31.07.2014 - 05:40
Rating: 10
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Someone's going very personal with retort.
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31.07.2014 - 05:45
Rating: 6
Ilham
Giant robot
Nope, I just like to give people a taste of their own medicine. You sound just as bitchy.

Karla, if you look at the voting details, there are a few of us.



To keep this on topic, this wasn't the only Acid Bath album I had a problem with. They will surely get their mandatory biennial spin sometime but I wouldn't expect myself to suddenly fall in love with them either.
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31.07.2014 - 11:26
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Karlabos on 31.07.2014 at 05:21
Oh someone agrees with my rating =P

Et tu, Karlabos?

You guys are killing my feelings here. I need a hug now.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 11:37
Rating: 6
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 11:26

Et tu, Karlabos?

You guys are killing my feelings here. I need a hug now.

Et toi*.

*Calin*. That's hug in French. I'll speed up the process and give them a try for the nth time just for you soon.
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31.07.2014 - 11:45
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Ilham on 31.07.2014 at 11:37

Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 11:26

Et tu, Karlabos?

You guys are killing my feelings here. I need a hug now.

Et toi*.
*Calin*. That's hug in French. I'll speed up the process and give them a try for the nth time just for you soon.


It wasn't french.
Calin sounds like Carlin... So I kind of accept the hug. I don't know if you should comment after listening to it again though. My heart has just started to heal.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 12:34
Rating: 6
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 11:45

Written by Ilham on 31.07.2014 at 11:37

Et toi*.
*Calin*. That's hug in French. I'll speed up the process and give them a try for the nth time just for you soon.


It wasn't french.
Calin sounds like Carlin... So I kind of accept the hug. I don't know if you should comment after listening to it again though. My heart has just started to heal.

Dude. Do you seriously think I did not know? I should really start using emots.

Yeah I might even come back with a 5.
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31.07.2014 - 12:45
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Ilham on 31.07.2014 at 12:34

Dude. Do you seriously think I did not know? I should really start using emots.
Yeah I might even come back with a 5.


Well I'M SORRY for being so defensive and still shaking after an attack to my beloved album.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 12:53
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Please Lili, let me use it:

Written by Guest on 31.07.2014 at 12:51
It's ok I love your album.



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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 13:37
Rating: 6
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 12:53

Please Lili, let me use it:


As long as you ask before, I'll let you.

Okay. What the actual fuck. I am enjoying this a lot more than before. It's seriously incredible how my tastes have changed. I am like a broken record with that. But shit. It makes me look like a lunatic.
I can see myself finishing the record for once.
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31.07.2014 - 13:51
!J.O.O.E.!
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Good band. Worthy of the respect they get. I just prefer Fudge Tunnel
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31.07.2014 - 14:03
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Guest on 31.07.2014 at 13:51

Good band. Worthy of the respect they get. I just prefer Fudge Tunnel


For the respectful post I promise I WILL check that album out since it does look delicious. Just like Total Recall did.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 14:06
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 14:03


For the respectful post I promise I WILL check that album out since it does look delicious. Just like Total Recall did.

Oh damn, I thought you had already. Definitely check out Hate Songs in E Minor. You won't like it as much as this but just try to think of it as a simpler approach with a nice grunge twist.
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31.07.2014 - 14:11
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Guest on 31.07.2014 at 14:06

Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 14:03


For the respectful post I promise I WILL check that album out since it does look delicious. Just like Total Recall did.

Oh damn, I thought you had already. Definitely check out Hate Songs in E Minor. You won't like it as much as this but just try to think of it as a simpler approach with a nice grunge twist.


It might be better than the second Acid Bath album then. That one got a grunge twist than this one doesn't have but I feel they didn't pull it off as good as I hoped, plus the production was thin compared to the crunchy and bigger sound of the debut. So yeah, colour me interested.
Also, double post.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 14:16
!J.O.O.E.!
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God damn shitty mobile Internet.
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31.07.2014 - 14:45
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 14:11



It might be better than the second Acid Bath album then. That one got a grunge twist than this one doesn't have but I feel they didn't pull it off as good as I hoped, plus the production was thin compared to the crunchy and bigger sound of the debut. So yeah, colour me interested.
Also, double post.


This one also has quite a bit of grunge twist to it.
I wouldn't even call it a twist here. tbh there is a lot of grunge to this album.
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31.07.2014 - 14:54
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 31.07.2014 at 14:45
This one also has quite a bit of grunge twist to it.
I wouldn't even call it a twist here. tbh there is a lot of grunge to this album.


Hmmm yeah some of the less abrassive tracks does have plenty of grunge. I guess I used the wrong words but the second album has a more... hmmm let's say less abrassive vibe and more liek hmmm.. radio-friendly? I dont know how ot say it. More accessible anyways.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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31.07.2014 - 15:09
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by X-Ray Rod on 31.07.2014 at 14:54

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 31.07.2014 at 14:45
This one also has quite a bit of grunge twist to it.
I wouldn't even call it a twist here. tbh there is a lot of grunge to this album.


Hmmm yeah some of the less abrassive tracks does have plenty of grunge. I guess I used the wrong words but the second album has a more... hmmm let's say less abrassive vibe and more liek hmmm.. radio-friendly? I dont know how ot say it. More accessible anyways.



I find this one way more accessible than the second one. But it is better in the songwriting department and especially when it comes to the production.
Btw, I remember Jupitreas saying that the second one has a production which is loads better than this one Sorry, but then he must be deaf.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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31.07.2014 - 15:14
Rating: 10
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 31.07.2014 at 15:09
I find this one way more accessible than the second one. But it is better in the songwriting department and especially when it comes to the production.
Btw, I remember Jupitreas saying that the second one has a production which is loads better than this one Sorry, but then he must be deaf.


I KNOW RIGHT? When I read that he fopund the production lackluster here and great in the sophomore I was like HELL NO. It's THIN on the sophomore. And that is not good at all for the music.

But I disagree with you. C'mon if it weren't for the lyrics and some of the screams, virtually all the second album is for radio. Specially tracks like Venus Blue. The second album is way more radio-friendly. The riffs are less sludge, hardcore, doom and waaaay more rock, stoner. Hence way more accessible by the average dude.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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