Cool Chair – Horror Show Review: A Horror Punk Band from the United States. On October 22nd, 2021, Cool Chair independently released their debut EP album, Horror Show, which includes five nail-in-the-coffin songs that would gratify Necrophagia and Misfits fans. The album was promoted through Shred Storm PR.
Cool Chair – Horror Show Review opens and discusses FIRST SIN: THE STRINGS/KEYS, which comprises multifaceted, catchy melodic punk, bludgeoning riffs, and solid bass riffs.
Let’s talk about the SECOND SIN: THE VOCALS, which involves a mixture of clean punk singing and demonic growls.
Moving on to the THIRD SIN: THE PERCUSSIONS, which delves into the vast world of a mixture of pop-punk and progressive drum patterns and beats.
In our following discussion about the band’s musical work, we will focus on the FOURTH SIN, the overall DISCUSSION of the album. Immediately, the listener presses the play button, and one is welcomed to the opening track, BRAIN DEAD, which welcomes the listener with an opening of the bass…
Close behind is the welcome to melodic punk/acoustic riffs and pop-punk vibe. Unexpectedly, reaching the last minute of the opening song, the sound/mood changes to a mixture of melodic/pop-punk and death metal aggressive attitude before bouncing back to end the song with catchy melodies/pop-punk and continue with THE HORROR SHOW and the four remaining tracks.
You are following suit with the second song, NATURAN DEMANTO, which welcomes the listener with the aggression of the guitar and epic drum work and a short sound clip from the original “Evil Dead” movie of the reading from the “Necronomicon Ex-Mortis” (aka the book of the dead) – where one will continue with track two and the continuation with the last three songs.
JORDAN has created a very well-produced and well-arranged composing album, with excellent devilmanship, where he has taken a fresh take on “Horror Punk,” giving it a unique edge and complex fusion of (added at the right moment) vastly varied elements of death metal, pop-punk, horror punk, post-hardcore and progressive metal and some traits of bands, such as; death metallers NECROPHAGIA, horror punkers THE MISFITS topped with a GREEN DAY vibe.
COOL CHAIR includes instruments and elements, such as multifaceted, catchy, melodic punk and bludgeoning riffs with unexpected progressive moments, aggression, technical riffs, fretboard chord playing, and solid bass riffs. JORDAN’s vocals involve clean punk singing and demonic growls. The listener will find additional elements within the wall of the music, such as ethereal synths, cellos, accordions, acoustic, and singalong choruses.
Unexpected changes, inspired lyrics and references to classic B-Horror movies, such as the 1968 Night of the Living Dead, Creepshow (short story “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill” (based on Stephen King’s short story “Weeds”), 1976 Grizzy and infamous film (original) The Evil Dead and many others to name –
COOL CHAIR has created this intense, creative, cohesive, energetic and entertaining horror punk/metal that brings something different to the table which provides and gives the album genre-bending interludes; dynamic style is far from dull, dark lyrics with an upbeat horror punk that is the gruesome and absurd nail in the coffin that moulds the music into a feast of fun and terror.
I wanted to share our thoughts and MEMORABILIA on the FIFTH SIN. COOL CHAIR is a fun, entertaining, cheesy and upbeat punk rock act – fans for non-metal/metal & horror fanatics – worth the listen.
Let’s discuss the ARTWORK of the SIXTH SIN. The artwork has a comic strip or “Creepshow/Tales from the Crypt” aesthetic with a feel of “Alien” or “Lost in Space.”
Finally, the review will close with the last sin, the SEVENTH SIN, the DISRELISH. Since there is nothing to disrelish within the musical world of COOL CHAIR. This concludes the Cool Chair – Horror Show Review.
Horror Show Song-listing:
- BrainDead
- Naturan Demanto
- LunkHead
- Grizzly End
- Bad Taste
Cool Chair Members:
- Jordan Stoffel (engineer, mixing, mastering, vocals, guitars, bass, keys, cellos, accordions, producer, songwriter)
- Preston Schenkel (drums)
