Was a little worried when I saw the sketchy album cover, and when folks were calling it Bill Ward Band (hate that), but alas, we can all call this Bill Ward, because that’s what the cover says. Once inside the album and the flood of emotional opinion I had when I heard 13 was confirmed—Bill should have been in that band and written the whole thing, and it wouldn’t have turned out to be the safe record for Halloween it was. Now, I’m saying that assuming that all of the courageous, pioneering, harrowing, progressive, future-forward doom metal writing all over this masterpiece is from the pen of Bill. Not knowing for sure, I nonetheless have no reason to doubt it, because Accountable Beasts is fortunately an extension, a bold step forward, from When the Bough Breaks, which, incredibly, represented the same highly intellectual beeline of thought from Ward One: Along the Way.

Bill Ward, Accountable Beasts Track List:

1. “Leaf Killers”
2. “Accountable Beasts”
3. “Katastrophic World”
4. “D.O.T.H.”
5. “First Day Back”
6. “As It Is in Heaven”
7. “Ashes”
8. “Straws”
9. “The Wall of Death”