Creeper – Sanguivore - Spinefarm
By Jeffrey Easton
If you had an album of the year, your favorite album right now, it's not anymore. Creeper have just dropped their new record, Sanguivore, and it is the best piece of darkness to pass by my ears in a long time. If The Lost Boys were released today, this would be the soundtrack, I will leave it at that. From The opening notes of Further Than Forever, you feel the darkness descend over you and you are transported to a different feeling. Cry To Heaven ups that with its with its demonic almost Sisters of Mercy meets Bauhaus in a dark alley feeling of despair. Will Gould, frontman for Creeper, was made for this, his vocals menacingly..creep..over the layers his band expel under his words. Not since Peter Steele have I been this enthralled to listen to someone emoting this darkly. Teenage Sacrifice shows the dark humor the band possesses while still cutting deeply while you listen to the big choruses that scream 1985. Creeper isn't just about Will, Ian Miles is a brilliant guitarist, overpowering the tracks as his razor-sharp riffs envelope the lyrics as they slam together in the grooves of my vinyl lp. This is a tribute to vampires through and through and the band do not forget the punk roots as they bash through the double entendre filled Chapel Gates. And as soon as those roots show, the eerie fog rises again around the synth lined Black Heaven creating an even darker vibe as the album climaxes into More Than Death, the ultimate tribute to the darkness that is...the feelings between two humans. If this doesn’t stir something in you, you are as dead as the subject of the album. More Than Death eclipses any tribute to love that has come before it, just in its own perverse dark way. I cannot speak enough of this album, the creativity, the sound, the darkness, the approach to writing. Creeper has outdone themselves, Album of 2023 hands down.
Official Creeper Site
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By Jeffrey Easton
If you had an album of the year, your favorite album right now, it's not anymore. Creeper have just dropped their new record, Sanguivore, and it is the best piece of darkness to pass by my ears in a long time. If The Lost Boys were released today, this would be the soundtrack, I will leave it at that. From The opening notes of Further Than Forever, you feel the darkness descend over you and you are transported to a different feeling. Cry To Heaven ups that with its with its demonic almost Sisters of Mercy meets Bauhaus in a dark alley feeling of despair. Will Gould, frontman for Creeper, was made for this, his vocals menacingly..creep..over the layers his band expel under his words. Not since Peter Steele have I been this enthralled to listen to someone emoting this darkly. Teenage Sacrifice shows the dark humor the band possesses while still cutting deeply while you listen to the big choruses that scream 1985. Creeper isn't just about Will, Ian Miles is a brilliant guitarist, overpowering the tracks as his razor-sharp riffs envelope the lyrics as they slam together in the grooves of my vinyl lp. This is a tribute to vampires through and through and the band do not forget the punk roots as they bash through the double entendre filled Chapel Gates. And as soon as those roots show, the eerie fog rises again around the synth lined Black Heaven creating an even darker vibe as the album climaxes into More Than Death, the ultimate tribute to the darkness that is...the feelings between two humans. If this doesn’t stir something in you, you are as dead as the subject of the album. More Than Death eclipses any tribute to love that has come before it, just in its own perverse dark way. I cannot speak enough of this album, the creativity, the sound, the darkness, the approach to writing. Creeper has outdone themselves, Album of 2023 hands down.
Official Creeper Site
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BUY Sanguivore on Vinyl