Evil Blizzard are back with the bands Fifth album Death Songs And Lullabies, they remain famenonymous all hiding behind masks, Evil Blizzard are Filthy Dirty, Fleshcrawl, Blizzpig, Side, Prowler and Stomper, they travelled all the way from Preston to record the album at Rock Hard Studios in Blackpool with Stocko and James T Routh producing and the latter also engineering the album. This is the first Evil Blizzard record I've heard that I really get, easily the bands most accessible album so far.
The A side opens like a electronica pop album on the intro to Off With Their Heads with spoken word vocals, emoting about the horrors of modern life, the debts and pains and sorrows, with the drums coming in to help sheer the flock of all the money and life blood they have, before the guitars explode like dentist drills, eventually leading to the chanted chorus of straight to the tower and Off With Their Heads that seems like it's perfect for festival chanting in 2026.
Down Down Down to the deeper bass tones and heavy bass riffs with our world slipping further into the abyss, this will accompany the journey, they hope you can find a way of not being dragged to the depths, do they tell us how to break those chains, well not quite, but the rousing backing vocals before the squalling guitar may have a clue or two, either way that squall needs to be heard at top volume.
Black Square is for one of those games of multidimensional chess the supreme idiot claims to be playing, with slow pulsing bass riffing over the eternal question, What does it mean? That has become more oblique, while Evil Blizzards sound has become less oblique, while we all keep asking over and over again What Does it Mean at the news every single day, no amount of heavy distorting guitars can ever come up with a sensible answer.
Wake The Dead in Bedlam is a monumental alternative rock anthem for the despair of the 2020's, when the Dead who are buried beneath the Imperial War museum's floors, in what used to be Bedlam are invoked and called on to try to save us from all the insanity, bass riffs seem to slip in and out of time, while the drums pound the message home that we need all the help we can get.
The B Side opens with Questions//Answers has a low slung intimacy with the Questions coming thick and fast, are there any sane answers left, you can figure out while hearing the drums mover around the speakers, slow pulsed bass notes adding a fraught edge to the worries they feel, until the grinding guitars erupt, fury rains down on our ears like a miasma of torture and torment, grinding gears and biker rawk intensity.
Four letter Words is a furious tirade for just over a minute before they yell Fuck and it ends. Hater Creator asks the obvious question of why God is such a monster, if he created everything and sees and knows everything happening why does he let the world behave like this, skull crushing bass riffs and air raid siren guitar fusillades accentuate the questions being asked, for the creator of all our war and hatred destruction and pain.
The album closes with Warpaint that thankfully is a far better tune than the Buckcherry song of the same name, this has a slow nervous edge, with the fraught pain of Black Sabbath's War Pigs slowed down and funnelled into questioning why we need to put on the Warpaint once more and launch another disastrous killing spree.
Find out more at https://evil-blizzard.bandcamp.com/album/death-songs-lullabies https://www.facebook.com/EvilBlizzardband http://www.evilblizzard.co.uk/
