Various Artists - Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares CD. As the hippie movement hurdled towards its emanate demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips. CD comes housed in a blacklight poster-style slipcase, replete with flocking and lysergic neon. Nice booklet documenting the creeping existential dread of the hard rock underground are tucked inside alongside digipak filled with dinosaur-heavy sounds. Features bands like Gift, Goliath, Sardonicus, Gollum, The Purple Sun, Sunn Cycle, Bulbous Creation and more. (new, sealed)