''Wild, Wonderful Purgatory'' is the second studio album by
stoner rock
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band
Karma to Burn
Karma to Burn, commonly abbreviated as K2B, is a desert rock/stoner rock band from Morgantown, West Virginia. The band are noted for their uncompromising, mostly instrumental sound.
Their name comes from a sleevenote on Bob Dylan's 1976 album ...
. The album was released on May 31, 1999 (Europe) by Roadrunner UK, and July 7, 1999 (North America) by MIA Records. The album was reissued on March 18, 2022 by Heavy Psych Sounds Records.
It is their first fully
instrumental
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album after the departure of former vocalist Jason Jarosz; a style they would keep for most subsequent releases.
Rob Oswald
Robert Oswald (born 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American drummer. Oswald is best known as the former drummer for Karma to Burn. He has previously been a member of various bands including Year Long Disaster, Mondo Generator, Nebula, B ...
– drums
Notes
The tracks "Twenty Nine" and "Thirty Two" appeared on the soundtrack of the 2000
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NASCAR 2001
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