Happy Holidays, rockers! This will be the last Today’s New Noise before you have to have Christmas dinner with your racist boomer uncle, so as a treat, we have Clouds Taste Satanic, an instrumental, post-doom quartet out of New York. We’ve previously featured them last February, but they recently put out a Christmas covers album and it’s so good, we just had to feature them again. It’s called All I Want for Christmas is Your Soul and it’s streaming right now on their Bandcamp.
Yes, you read that above paragraph correctly, this is an instrumental post-doom project putting out a Christmas covers EP. As bizarre as that sentence sounds, it’s actually incredible. It starts with their rendition of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” where Carey’s vocal parts become guitar solos and jingle bells add a festive feel to the tune that contrasts beautifully with the metal elements of this band. Then comes their take on “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” which adapts very nicely to a doom metal style as the guitars, once again, play the vocal melodies as solos.
Next up is a version of Spinal Tap’s “Christmas With the Devil,” complete with the intro from “Carol of the Bells” like the original Spinal Tap version. Admittedly, a comedy-metal band is a little easier to convert into a post-doom song than pop songs, so this one isn’t as much of a challenge but it’s still pulled off just as well as the others. Finally, the band gives their take on the classic Christmas tune “Little Drummer Boy,” which dates back to the 1940s and was first recorded by the von Trapp Family Singers—yes, the ones who The Sound of Music is about. CTS perfectly transforms the song with long, droning bass and mesmerizing guitar solos. If you’re looking to get into the Christmas spirit while still staying metal af, I highly recommend this EP.
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