"Spiral Castle" features the best songwriting this band has shown in a decade. After the opening lead track every song is a pounding, doomy crunchfest in high 'Road style. The monster epic of the title track, the creepy "Shadow"", the hypnotic "Seven Trumpets"", the colossal ten-minute "Merchants Of Death" and the mystical "Born Upon The Soul" â?? there just are not any bad songs on this album, or even any average ones. -