When The Kite String Pops is the first of 2 albums released by American Sludge Metal band Acid Bath. Over the years the album has been hailed as a masterpiece and a landmark of the sludge metal genre. The cover art features a self painted portrait of the Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy as his alter-ego Pogo the Clown. Read more on Last.fm.
Acid Bath are an American metal band from Houma, Louisiana that formed in 1991. They released their breakout debut When the Kite String Pops in 1994, which was then followed by their sophomore and final album, Paegan Terrorism Tactics, in 1996. The band later broke up in 1997 after the passing of bassist Audie Pitre in a traffic collision.
Their music is often regarded as hard to label under one certain genre. While sweeping across many sounds, Acid Bath put out two records of considerable influence Read more on Last.fm
