In a just world, Orange Goblin would be as big as Ghost. Or at the very least, on par with the likes of Clutch or Green Lung, the British band proudly flying the flag for Sabbathian traditions for 30 years. But their journey is almost at an end. Singer Ben Ward admits to some bittersweetness as OG play their final UK festival before they wind things down permanently in December.
But if it colours their set in any way, it’s adding a poignancy to their ever-reliable set of rock’n’roll anthems. Riffs lurch and Ben looms more monolith than man as the likes of Scorpionica and Made Of Rats show the heavy metal wheel didn’t need reinventing, heavy blues gone catastrophic with grooves that bait some seriously sore necks.
