Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Golden Blood - "Cum, Coke & Blasphemy" (Witching Hour Productions, 2020)

Band: Golden Blood
Title: Cum, Coke & Blasphemy
Genre: Black/Thrash Metal with some Heavy Metal influences
Release date: 30th March 2020
Time: 15.56 min
Vote: 75/100












Very interesting debut EP for Golden Blood, that I received in an awesome CD version by the Polish label Witching Hour Productions. Golden Blood is a one-man band from Austria guided with iron will by Erech Leleth, that recently released another EP, entitled "Rippin' the Wild". But, in this space, I'll talk you about "Cum, Coke & Blasphemy".

Composed of 4 tracks, this EP is essentially a black/thrash metal attack with some heavy metal influences. It is characterized by the very expressive vocals of Erech Leleth, a nice work of lead guitar, the use of a well programmed drum-machine (even though you know I would like to hear real drums IN ANY CASE hehe!) and by a good dynamicity that allows also a great variety. In fact, the song range from the speed metal madness (with some oriental touches) of "Nightfall" to the blast-beat mania of "We Will Ride", and not forgetting the opening song, the same titletrack, that has some decadent black metal passages with keyboards. But, among them, I think the best track of the EP is the closing "Empress of the Unholy Reich", not only because it synthesizes the Golden Blood sound but also because he has some majestic black metal sequences that are a perfect climax to end the hostilities.


Definitely, "Cum, Coke & Blasphemy", mixing Midnight, Nifelheim and also Tormentor (Hungary) in a single winning solution, is a work promising a lot for the future. But I suggest to Erech Leleth to avoid completely the not so effective clean vocals (in some ways close to Iron Dogs) so to focus on the harsher ones. And now I am very curious to listen to "Rippin' the Wild"!

Tracklist:

1 - Cum, Coke & Blasphemy

2 - Nightfall

3 - We Will Ride

4 - Empress of the Unholy Reich

Line-up:

Erech Leleth - vocals/guitars/bass/drum-machine/keyboards

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Golden-Blood-102712108018667/

BandCamp: https://goldenblood.bandcamp.com/

Witching Hour Productions: https://witchinghour.pl/

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