Blood Cult
We’re Gonna Take Your Soul
Self Released
Remember when heavy metal was the ultimate folk devil, when wearing a Slayer t-shirt would instil fear into the general population and playing The Number Of The Beast was a fast track to hell? Of course, that also made it undeniably cool and Blood Cult’s latest album, We’re Gonna Take Your Soul, is the living embodiment of that aesthetic. Bursting out of the cornfields of Illinois and sounding like the love child of Blue Öyster Cult and King Diamond, Blood Cult is the project of one man army J.R. Preston and he’s produced an album that pays homage to the Satanic panic that swept the world in the 1980’s. With Preston’s demonic vocals, dirty guitar tone and bowel-loosening bass rumble, it feels a little dangerous playing this record, it’s as he’s sold his soul in exchange for some of the world’s greatest riffs. It was definitely worth the trade because ‘Playground Creeper’ stalks with menace whilst ‘In The Full Moon’ is fiendishly good and the type of song you wish The Misfits would still write. Now it’s time to sell your soul and join the Blood Cult.
Review by Peter Dennis.