Loki is a living legend of underground and horror punk scene. He spent years playing in notable bands such as Gotham Road, Argyle Goolsby, Mister Monster, Darrow Chemical Company…
I had luck that I met him in person when he played in Zagreb with Michale Graves prior to all that shit Michale did and said recently. I shook Loki´s hand and talked a bit with him about Darrow Chemical Company, past and future. He is very friendly and down to Earth guy.
Now, on his solo e.p. This e.p contains 6 songs in about a little more than twenty minutes. Three songs are his and they are nice mixture of metal influences and horror punk, I might say an amalgamation of what Loki did with his previous projects and best. His voice is very cool and melodic and fits perfectly to the songs. Three songs are covers by Eleven, Bouncing Souls and Hozier. My favorite songs on this e.p. are definitely Another Setback and Demon Eyes.
Blood Geyser are coming from Melbourne, Australia and this is their debut album. This album features 13 songs of interesting music. That being mixture of horror punk, death rock, with some metal and hardcore punk influences thrown in. This is not your usual la-la-la ooo singalong horro rpunk we all know and love, this is much darker music with pumping bass, growling and screeching vocals. The music sounds very spooky thankful to clever usage of samples from different horror legendary movies, depending on the theme of the song. I love Wanna Play? One of the most disturbing and scary songs on this record. I can only imagine how these guys would sound live with the right atmosphere for example in the castle of my hometown. That would be fantastic. Further songs that are really stand outs on this record for me are Carnival Of Terror, Family Of Cannibals and Ghosthouse. This is an awesome album. Loved every second.
Calarook are hailing from Switzerland and this is their debut full length album. When I listened to the intro on the album I thought to myself, oh no, not another Alestorm clone playing boring folk metal called pirate metal. But, fortunately I was wrong. This is more on melodic death metal side of things with growling vocals, epic guitar catchy riffs and perfect balance between aggressive fast parts and more melodic side of things. I must say that violin does a great job here, especially that fantastic violin solo in Kraken´s Chest, one of my absolute favorites on this record. This album sounds like a crosbreed of Amon Amarth, Skyclad, Running Wild and Edge of Sanity combined into one superb whole musical journey. The songs are hilarious, you just can´t go wrong with Quest For Booze or Invisible Pineapples., especially Paul the Parrot hehe. This is fine debut record, I would love to see and hear this band live somewhere, I am sure they make one hell of a party.
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