Come on, Reap
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| Extended Play by The Devil's Blood | ||||
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2008 |
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23-25 July and 11-13 August 2008 |
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| Label (s) | Ván Records | |||
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CD, 12 " |
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Studio (s) |
The Void |
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Come, Reap is the first EP by the Dutch band The Devil's Blood .
Track list
- Come, Reap - 5:08 (text and music: SL)
- River of Gold - 4:17
- The Heavens Cry out for the Devil's Blood - 5:08 (text and music: SL)
- White Faces - 5:08 (Text and Music: Roky Erickson )
- Voodoo Dust - 5:08 (text and music: SL)
Music style and lyrics
According to Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia , the band had a "dark obsession with digging out elements of late '60s psychedelia , garage and acid rock , along with the ritualized satanism of [...] groups like Coven and Black Widow ". River of Gold is reminiscent of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal à la Witchfynde and The Heavens Cry out for the Devil's Blood an Nuggets .
Götz Kühnemund from Rock Hard compared the guitar sound with Black Widow, Captain Beyond , Hawkwind and Rush , paired with "irresistible, eerily beautiful melodies that develop a slightly oppressive atmosphere". He classified the music as hard rock in the style of the 1970s, which the band referred to as occult rock. Nevertheless, the music “can hardly be classified stylistically, even if it falls under the term ' occult hard rock'. You can find early maiden in THE DEVIL'S BLOOD sound as well as Black Widow, Hawkwind, Rush or Black Sabbath from the Dio phase - and yet all these comparisons are misleading. ”The head of the band, SL, named Roky as identifiable influences Erickson , Black Widow, Coven, Captain Beyond, old Pentagram , Jefferson Airplane , Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Canned Heat , but there is probably no band that sounds like The Devil's Blood.
reception
Come, Reap was received euphorically, according to Rivadavia. He highlighted the singer F. The Mouth of Satan, whose timbre The Devil's Blood gives something that has not existed in heavy metal since the early work of Mercyful Fate . The EP is as essential as Satan himself. Kühnemund praised The Devil's Blood as a “great, completely independent, exciting and touching band”. Compared to the single The Graveyard Shuffle , "there are now five more divine compositions [...] lifted to the next level". Farida Lemouchi sweeps away "all squeaky voices and opera divas". The band is “ already a legend , especially in the Black Metal underground”, but with their “Seventies Hard Rock” they could “just as easily cast a spell over Rush fans”. For him the band is "the greatest thing I've seen in a long time" and Come, Reap is the "strongest release of the last year" and "(except for the short duration) almost perfect". The Rock Hard put the release in the list of "250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know". Diana Glöckner from Metal Hammer wrote that it was “rare that a band with a debut EP is so popular”. With Come, Reap , the band has "made reviewers interested worldwide, performed celebrated live gigs and inspired fans of all kinds". According to Frank Thiessies from the same magazine, the band was able to "get a hell of a positive echo of praise" with the EP.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Come Reap - The Devil's Blood. AllMusic, accessed March 24, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Götz Kühnemund : The Devil's Blood . Come on, Reap. In: Rock Hard . No. 259 ( rockhard.de [accessed on March 18, 2014]).
- ↑ a b Götz Kühnemund: The Devil's Blood . Nearly perfect. In: Rock Hard . No. 261 .
- ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: The Time of No Time Evermore - The Devil's Blood. AllMusic, accessed March 24, 2014 .
- ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 75 .
- ^ Diana Glöckner: The Devil's Blood . More than rock. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse GmbH, September 2009, ISSN 1614-2292 , p. 26 .
- ↑ Frank Thiessies: The Devil's Blood . The Time Of No Time Evermore. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse GmbH, October 2009, ISSN 1614-2292 , p. 106 .