They Say :- A lean, mean hard rocking’ machine…the eight-legged tag team of frontman Ben Ward, bassist Martyn Millard, guitarist Joe Hoare and drummer Chris Turner have reached a new peak of creativity and one-two-fuck-you intensity on ‘A Eulogy For The Damned’. This is the album that deftly encapsulates everything that is exhilarating and admirable about this most dedicated and humble of British metal wrecking crews and that deserves to propel Orange Goblin to the front of the British metal queue. They’re back and the party is starting all over again. Whose round is it??
We Say :- It has been a bit of a wait, but five years after ‘Healing Through Fire’. Orange Goblin have unleashed album number seven. ‘Eulogy for the Damned’ continues much in the vein of their last couple of efforts in that it’s pure brilliance in heavy metal fury. Much has been made over the years about Orange Goblin’s journey from space traveling stoners to underground heavy metal Kings. All that chit-chat is rather unnecessary though, Orange Goblin have always been some of the hardest rockers out there and there’s no sign of that changing any time soon.
The long period between albums and apparent extra care taken in the making of this one has worked a treat. Orange Goblin have always specialised in ‘down and dirty’ rock and roll, regardless of the ever changing genre tags and they’ve not gone anything like squeaky clean here by any measures. ‘A Eulogy for the Damned’ does however seem a more measured approach with great songs spanning the album end to end. ‘Red Tide Rising’ is the lead single from the CD; you’d be hard pushed to find any track on here that would sound inferior in its place though.
It is ‘Red Tide Rising’ that sets the ball rolling as track number one on the album. It’s been around on the internet for a while now and is a great track to hit the ground running with. Following that ‘Stand for Something’ is the first of many anthems on the record. The chorus is built for the live show and will be one of the staples of the live show from now on. Similarly ‘The Fog’ is one of the finest songs on the CD and probably in their back-catalogue, another great chorus sandwiched in an atmospheric belter of a track. ‘The Filthy and the Few’ complete with stoner friendly intro is another classic in the making, while the title track is a steady, more reflective romp to the finish line. You could pick any song out and sing its praises though, there’s not a sniff of any filler.
This should prove to be Orange Goblin’s strongest album to date and the high quality of the material on ‘Eulogy for the Damned’ will undoubtedly win them some new fans over the coming year. It would be nice to think that this will be the album that breaks Orange Goblin as one of the UK’s leaders in heavy music. The truth however is that the music that they treat us too is a bit too grubby and uncool to bother the masses. For those of us in the know however…well here’s another large helping of great beer-soaked British heavy metal for us to enjoy, Cheers!
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