TRACKLISTING

Gifted By The Wind
End To End
Electric Flame

Volt Rush
Black Heaven
Sudden End

Guess what?

Earthless has a surprise for you. Whereas the bands three previous albums featured anywhere from two to four completely instrumental space rock jams, the California trios fourth and latest, Black Heaven, is nothing like that. Its quite different, drummer Mario Rubalcaba says with a laugh. It has six songs, and most importantly it has vocals on about 70 percent of the record. There goes being pigeonholed as an instrumental band, I guess

Of Black Heavens six tracks, only two are instrumental. And one of those instrumentals is less than two minutes long. It wasnt a premeditated thing to do a record with vocals, Rubalcaba explains. On the older records, Mike was responsible for a lot of the riffs that would start these jams, but on this one Isaiah really brought his own pizazz and flavor to it