"This is exactly the kind of wake up call that psychedelic metal needs in this country! As far as debut albums are concerned, Power Hor is among the finest I have heard in a long, long time. These four visionaries have brought to the table a heaping helping of seriously heavy music, and I don't think anyone who eats from the table of Lesbian will go away hungry. This band is a force to be reckoned with, and reckon you shall!!" -Kyle O'Donnell, Adequacy.net
"It takes stones for an all male metal band to call themselves Lesbian. But the Seattle quartet who traffic under that provocative name don't seem to be doing so for cheap outrage, but rather out of respect for an oft-beleaguered segment of society. Lesbian grind out pugnacious metal that frequently grows serpentine tendrils of prog-rock introspection and subued virtuosity. You can hear this approach to compelling effect at their gigs and on the band's album, Power Hor. There, Lesbian craft four epic suites of mullet-shredding, high-IQ metal interspersed with pastoral filigrees of King Crimson-oid prog beauty. Lesbian's mastery of dynamics and dramatic mood swings keep their music interesting; they realize your head is there for more than just banging." -Dave Segal
"Definately another 'heavy' winner from the eccentric Holy Mountain label, fresh from their successes with the likes of Om and Mammatus, two other question-mark-metal bands with heady, hypnotic abilities. Their thoat-torn vocals and the weighty riffage argue for Lesbian's status as metallers, while the many passages of quiet blissfulness reveal a surprisingly sensitive side, just as emotionally effective, each opposed aspect of their music enhancing the power and beauty of the other via Lesbian's devastating dynamics and psychedelic synergy. Recommended!" -Aquarius
"Lesbian bring together psychedelic metal and prog rock with unexpectedly agile and concise results. Like King Crimson locked in a room and ordered to deconstruct Metallica's 'Ride the Lightening...(Lesbian) take more than their share of stylistic chances with ornately constructed dirges and time signatures that make hairpin turns when you least expect it." -Hannah Levin
"Mind bending experiments in sludge. A million miles away from stoner rock's myopic, heads-down thumping, Lesbian are making music of such incredible breadth that they really need to devise their own genre to accommodate its scale and ambition. In the same way that Titan have taken space rock, bluesy doom and Krautrock and whipped them into something remarkable, Lesbian's disregard for bong-centric norms is writ large across every minute of 'Power Hor.' A rambling, constantly evolving epic, this boasts roots in purest doom, but what's sprouting from the ground is anything but conventional, as cracked swamp-folk, angular hardcore and pounding, Biblical hard rock all punch it out in a race to blow the most minds possible. Factor in the kind of genius that would choose that band name in the first place, and this is an inarguable must-have for heavy-lidded freaks everywhere." -Dom Lawson, Metal Hammer
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