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If, like West Virginia stoner rockers Karma To Burn, you’ve got huge guitar riffs and gargantuan grooves on tap, why bow to convention and have a ‘whining, posing douche-bag at a microphone’ spoiling all your fun? That’s exactly what Karma To Burn thought back in 1996 when they were offered a deal with Roadrunner Records. Here were three guys having a ball, knocking out some quite superb uncompromising, bulldozing stoner grooves as an instrumental power trio free of the complications a singer brings to the table. The only problem was that Roadrunner were not having any of it. The deal, and the money, was on the table on the condition they get themselves a singer. The lure of the filthy lucre was too much to resist, so singer Jay Jarosz was recruited and vocals were added to what became their first album, ‘Karma To Burn’. Things didn’t exactly work out though, so Jarosz was ejected, the band lost the deal and returned to their original incarnation as an instrumental trio.