The Killing Toke released their first demo "Ask Not The Innkeeper, For Destiny Is Thy Name" on December 3rd 2013. The album had 8 tracks and a 9th bonus track if you download the album through bandcamp. My review is of the entire album including the bonus track "From Beyond The Silence" from the cancelled split. The first song of the demo is a tracked entitled "Myths Untold". This track is an instrumental track acting as a intro into the album. The track only contains keyboard, bass and drums (oh and audio samples from the movie "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"). A great folk sounding intro into this great album. After under 3 minutes the track ends with the killing of Kurt from the film. Then the second track starts. The second song is called "It Will Never Leave". This is the first song that The Killing Toke ever released. A track that the bassist of Jess Than Jake called "Brutal". And this song is indeed brutal. This is the first song on the album with Allen V. playing guitar and singing vocals (he put down the keyboard). This is a great track and the progress of the song is just great. About halfway of being a blackened death metal song a woman screams and the song turns cold. And the heavy Hooded Menace influence comes out. This had to be one of my favorite tracks of the album. (This and Transformational Space) The third track is part one of the two part song "A Story of Vengeance". A Story of Vengeance I is over 10 minutes long ending with keyboard. (He picked it back up) Its a great song with a Maiden influenced riff and a great story. That is one great thing about this band, the lyrics are always a in depth story with great detail that only Allen truly knows. He has said that he is a horror film maker that makes music instead. A great viking black metal song with many riffs and a solid story of what I seem to understand anyway. The fifth track is a short catchy song called "A Story of Vengeance II". This seems to be a lot of peoples favorite and I understand that. It is a very catchy song for coming from this album. The fifth track is called "...hush" which is the second instrumental song. I love this song. It has a great vibe and starts off with a nice riff and then transforms into a very spacey and eerie riff. Ah.. yes we finally get to my favorite track, the track that had a video released for it. "Transformational Space". This is a song almost 9 minutes long that represents all styles of The Killing Toke. I really can't say much about this song besides a beautifully scary song with eerie riffs. And the song that follows is a song influenced by the reavers from the tv series "Firefly", the song is called "Reavers in the Sky". This is a very old Killing Toke Song. A great death doom metal song that ends with a great black metal melody followed by some trippy sounds. This was a great album and the oldest Killing Toke song. The last track officially on the album is titled "The Vile, The Suffering". This is another instrumental song and another favorite of mine. A very catchy riff into more catchy riffs. This was a fantastic way to end the album. Wrapping up the album as a whole. Over all in my humble opinion this is a great album. I see nothing wrong with this album and can't wait for the split and ep. Now for the bonus track. This is a track that was on a unreleased split that was cancelled. This track is 4 minutes and 20 seconds. It is a atmospheric black metal song yet keeps that same Killing Toke sound. This is a very powerful song and I recommend that the band try to re release it on another split. This song is too good to only have it as a bonus track but this is a band that loves to give its fans music. If you normally listen to me when it comes to music, well listen now... I highly recommend this album and I think any death doom metal fan should listen to this album in its entirety. This is a solid album. So future tokers why listen to me when you could listen to the demo. Here it is the first demo album from the band "The Killing Toke"...
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