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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Damnation Of Adam Blessing - The Second Damnation (1970) [US Promo]

Damnation Of Adam Blessing – The Second Damnation

Original 1970 USA Promotional LP (Discogs)
United Artists Records UAS-6773
~ThePoodleBites rip in 96kHz / 24bit FLAC + full 800dpi scans~

This is an excellent piece of hard psych from 1970. There isn’t a dull track here! “Back To The River” was actually a minor hit, but my favorite is probably “Death Of A Virgin” – hold on now, I know you're thinking that a band called “Damnation Of Adam Blessing” writing a song called “Death Of A Virgin” is probably some sort of 3rd-rate unintelligible black metal crap. Not so fast! This is heavy psych of a very high caliber, yet simultaneously very melodic and soulful, with excellent songwriting and playing throughout both sides.

I was only turned onto this record relatively recently, and since I just got this near-mint promo copy for a steal at the local record shop a few weeks ago, I had to rip it!



There is a CD (2003 Progressive Line PL 579) that is paired with their debut album, and it is sourced from a vinyl rip. That said, it is not a *bad* vinyl rip, which is actually quite surprising considering the variety of awful-sounding CDs out there. However, I feel pretty confident in saying that this rip is better, if for no other reason than my equipment and the time I spent manually de-clicking each track. There is still a little bit of inner groove distortion here, but I think that it may be on the record itself; my equipment is not faulty.


Track listing:

1) No Way — 3:17
2) Death Of A Virgin — 3:40
3) Driver — 3:25
4) Everyone — 4:10
5) Back To The River — 5:20
6) Money Tree — 4:48
7) Ba-Dup — 3:20
8) New York City Woman — 5:54
9) In The Morning — 6:13
10) Smile — 1:27

Vinyl Condition: M-
Lineage / Equipment:
– Audio-Technica AT150MLx Dual Moving-Magnet Cartridge
– Audio-Technica AT-LP1240-USB Direct Drive Professional Turntable (internal stock preamp/ADC removed)
– TCC TC-754 RIAA Phono Preamp (new regulated power supply, added LM7812 regulator)
– Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 MkII (96kHz / 24bit)
– Adobe Audition CC 2018 (recording)
– iZotope RX 6 Audio Editor (manual declicking, remove rumble, additional adjustments)
– Audacity 2.2.1 (fades between tracks, split tracks)
– Foobar2000 v1.3.17 (tagging, dynamic range analysis)

Full album is available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtvDy489zPo

MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/apIimL4I#ZwWD4HJfXEFTmdEOE6UsTA
Enjoy, and please feel free to leave comments!

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for the another great work.

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  2. A monster - thank you!

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  3. excellent album--thank you for posting!

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