Band/Artist: Various Artists
Album: What Is This That Stands Before Me?
Best song: “Changes”
Worst song:“Symptom of the Universe.”

I’ve yet to write about Zola Jesus on this site and it’s certainly pretty weird my first writing about her work comes within the context of her single song on a compilation of Black Sabbath covers. Such records are a somewhat regular occurrence, being that Sabbath is the most influential band of its genre. Sacred Bones Records, the label responsible for the comp, is probably less mainstream than the other such labels putting out these covers records, but nonetheless, its artists are definitely as Sabbath-influenced as, like, the biggest of these covers records.

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