Ukrainian Stoned Jesus played in my hometown in club Prostor about eight or nine years ago, I can’t remember exactly which year. Now, they released new six song material, first for Season of Mist. This band is specific mixing melody, lots of melody with doom metal sensibility and some stoner and even psychedelic song parts. Now, I must admit that I am not an avid fan of such music, but this band does it perfectly with mixing that old school Sabbath melodic vibe and haunting atmosphere with more modern aspects of doom. Vocalist/guitarist Igor Sydorenko’s voice reminds me a lot of Ozzy Osbourne in couple of song parts with color of voice and way of singing. My personal favorites are doomy ‘Season Of The Witch’, but also the title song and ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ with that catchy chorus with great harmonies on backing vocals with main vocal melodic lines. But, all of the songs are just superb to listen to and this album has no fillers and does not get boring for one second. Go check this one out!
I already wrote about Claudio Simonetti, composer of many horror soundtracks and keyboard player of legendary Italian band Goblin. Simonetti worked with many horror legends like Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi and Claudio´s main band Goblin has many current incarnations so this one made a compilation of greatest horror soundtrack themes and songs that made our black hearts weep tears of bloody joy while listening. This one is not long, it has nine songs and I just can not decide which one works better for me here.
For sure, Suspiria, Zombi, Tenebre, Profondo Rosso are top, but my personal favorite is Phenomena, this is top of all my favorite Italian horror soundtracks, being such contagious and song that has it all, great guitar work, epic main body of melody and just takes you to some other place and time just somehow feeling the darkness and feeling the almost unpenetrable horror and creepyiness through almost joyful melodies that Claudio´s music provides in many themes. I also am in awe how this music borders somewhere between epic joy and darkness mixing those two into one superb song structure thus creating a whirlwind of emotion and able to make goosebumps on your skin.
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