Canadian trio The Electric Dead finally released their long awaited debut album.
The Electric Dead play a mixture of horrorpunk, doom metal with some rock and blues influences and their music sounds pretty dirty and greasy. The album contains 9 epic songs with horror lyrics and when I listened to this album it sounded like walking through a dark swamp, dampy and scary with some creature following me persistently from darkness.
There are some interesting solutions in song structures and even some keyboard background like “Lucifers Blues”. Some songs reminded me of Danzig like the slower one “Devil in a Dress”. Incredible, but the song “The Mark I Bear” vocally reminded me on James Hetfield. Maybe its just me. My personal favourite on the record is “Me And The Devil”. The songs are mainly uptempo with that sweaty guitar energy holding the reins on you from the beginning until the very end of the album. This is great stuff if you love your horror greasy and doomy.
Coffin Carousel are coming from Australia, Melbourne. The Australian scene is great, with so many punk, hardcore and metal bands coming out nowadays.
This record came out on Eclipse Records and it contains 17 songs of dark and emotional music. Coffin Carousel play a mixture of doom metal and goth rock(more) with horrorpunk and hardcore influences(less). Lyrically they deal with some personal demons and the lyrics are very deep and not your conventional generic horror stuff, not that it is something wrong with that. While listening to this record you can actually feel the sun setting down or darkening in the sky. There is one little thing that bothered me on this record and that is the vocal lines and melodies, I think the singing could be a little bolder and with more emotions behind it on some songs, and I am sure that the singer can do it because he has an awesome voice. But, thats only me. Maybe they just wanted it this way. What I personally loved the most on this record is the feeling of coldness and nothingness in this music and the atmosphere that they managed to get on this record makes it worth listening.
Now, this is one of the more original bands in the scene. Coming from California, these are Radioactive Chicken Heads and this is their new album “Tales From The Coop”.
The album contains 13 hilarious songs of horrorpunk mixed with some rock and surf influences and old school horror movie vibe.
Now, lyrically the album deals with tales from the coop. Done in a parody way, but I am not sure if it was meant to be parody. You cant go wrong with song titles like “Wiccan Chicken” with great female vocal melodies or “Frankenchicken” or an excellent cover of “Somebodys Watching Me” by Rockwell and Michael Jackson. I really enjoyed the song structures varying from almost cabaret singing and melodies to more punkish stuff. I am usually very careful considering the bands that are original an unique but this one is definitely something new, fresh and different. I would like to see and listen to this band live because I am sure that their live show would be awesome. I really enjoyed this record.
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