Keep Your Eyes Out For The New Cape Of Bats Album

Thank Christ Cape of Bats is good. If you have a name as cool as ‘Cape of Bats’ and you’re not very good, it elevates the listener’s disappointment to a new level, making it almost like personal resentment. Damn you for taking that great band name, you mediocre bunch of nematodes. 

But they are good–damn good. The Philly-cum-Ireland trio create razor-edged grime rock with both furious speed and infectious witchcraft riffs. The result is a kickass sound where crust punk, black metal, and stoner rock combine in a boiling cauldron of dark thoughts and good times (odd that they don’t do that more often, given how incestuous the three scenes’ fanbases are).

The new Cape of Bats album, Violent Occultism, is due out October 13th (nice) via Broken Limbs, and is a great accompaniment to autumn, channeling creepy morbidity without losing any of the extremity or atmosphere. If “The Monster Mash” is a little light in the combat boots for your Halloween, this breakneck celebration of vampires gods will do just the trick.

Cape of Bats, Violent Occultism. A ton of friendly, evil fun. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.