DEVIL TO PAY - TEST PRESS FATE IS YOUR MUSE LP - HARD ROCK STONER DOOM

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INCREDIBLY RARE CHARITY TEST PRESS AUCTION!!!!

This is the original #1 test pressing for Devil To Pay's critically-hailed fourth full-length album, Fate Is Your Muse.  All proceeds from this auction will go to benefit Ed, the curator/leader of the popular underground music website, Doommantia.

Fate is Your Muse is an introspective lyrical journey that careens from the metaphysical, to the absurd, to the pragmatic (and back again), all set to bone crushing heaviness wrapped in elaborate vocal melodies and elegant guitar phrases. Exploring topics such as reincarnation, the end of days, and the thin veil between reality and fantasy, the Indianapolis foursome create a rare musical experience; one that will have heavy rock fans returning for the primal emotional riffs, as well as the complex and heady lyrical content.

Test pressing comes just as it did from the factory, in clear sleeve.  No album cover.  But it does include the poster that comes with the album.

For those unaware, Ed had been forced into homeless by a medical condition but still manages to keep the Doommantia site viable online. Ed suffered a series of  heart attacks that forced Ed to become unemployed.  Those events, plus the exorbitant cost of cardiac medications made paying the rent an impossibility and he was evicted from his place in Aberdeen, Washington. Now homeless, the doom and metal community has been rallying around his cause with benefit concerts and a compilation of 39 heavy bands that all donated their music to help Ed’s cause. "Doommantia Vol. 1”

Now Ripple Music offers their assistance to help a musical brother in need.  After establishing an ongoing company policy of giving back to the community, Ripple Music has auctioned off some of their rarest test pressings to help the BP Spill Gulf Clean Up, Wounded Warriors, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research, and Joplin Missouri Tornado Relief, amongst others.   The auction of the extremely rare test press for Devil To Pay’s “Fate is Your Muse” will continue that tradition, offering heavy rock/doom fans a chance to get one of only two test-pressings ever to be released to the public.

Track Listing:

1. Prepare To Die
2. Wearin' You Down
3. Ten Lizardmen & One Pocketknife
4. Yes Master
5. Already Dead
6. Savonarola
7. Black Black Heart
8. The Naked Truth
9. Mass Psychosis
10. Beyond The Ether

“Devil  To  Pay  are  a  very  great  sounding  hybrid  of  southern  rock,  metal,  and  sludge  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should c heck  out  this b and.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Prepare  To  Die"  "Already  Dead"  "Black  Blue  Heart'  and  "Tie  One  On".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.” -- ExtremeUndergroundMetal

“With an air classic Southern Rock, DEVIL TO PAY presents their new album "Fate Is Your Muse". With catchy rhythms instantly engage you and a warm voice, this combo knows how to get right into our ears with its elegance and make good music. Undoubtedly, those who can appreciate the Rock of decades ago with a modernized and clean sound, you know that this "Fate Is Your Muse" is a terrific album by an unknown band (at least for me) American. So do not think about it and give a listen to this introspective work.” --Queens of Steel (translated)