Yes! The long awaited new album by the horrorpunk legend Shadow Windhawk is out now! I was lucky to listen to the record and review it for this webzine.

Everyone, even birds in the trees know that I love horrorpunk and how much I love all horror subculture. Shadow Windhawk is an important part of the small but tight and awesome horrorpunk scene and he has been here for years creating his own music, whether acoustic or conventional but always having a large dose of originality in his songs.

This new album contains 9 songs, one being originally written by TSOL. What instantly comes to mind when the first song Broken Signals started, is how much atmosphere can this band create in the songs, the darkness through the album being almost physically and you can almost touch it and feel it. Borgo Pass is a song that was released recently so I listened to it a couple of times already, so I know this beautiful ode to the nature and vampirism and fear. Cortege is a beautiful emotional slower song about death and dealing with death and feelings that take hold of you while funeral ceremony takes place and I can totally relate to that song. Fourteen Mile Tombstone is for me one of my favorite songs on this record, a simple melodic punkrock song dedicated to George Romero who sadly passed away and as a hommage for meaning so much to us, horror fans. Visitation Room is a slow rolling song carried by the simple, but effective melodic guitar riff that holds the song and Shadow´s excellent special voice takes us drifting to some other black dimension. Red Shadows was written originally by TSOL but this song fits perfectly in this album so I loved every second of that song. Feb 24th 1989 is a song that came out on Shadow Windhawk´s first acoustic e.p. and was my favorite song for a long time being a dark ode to Twin Peaks and the murder of Laura Palmer. I love how all of the Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi and other samples fit perfectly in the songs and I always admire when the band uses samples smartly. Green-Wood is a lovely graveyard ballad just made for listening while walking through the graveyard on an Autumn day. Wendigo closes the album with a feeling of just coming out alive from the dark, dangerous, but at the same time beautiful place.

10/10

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