Author: Darren Cowan

Darren Michael Cowan is a veteran Heavy Metal journalist for over twenty years. He has written for over a dozen publications including print and the Web. Cowan has interviewed hundreds of bands including King Diamond on Metal Centre. Cowan runs his own publicity company; Shapeshifter PR. Cowan is a bass player and song writer.
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Darren Cowan

IMPIOUS „“Holy Murder Masquerade””

Sweden’s IMPIOUS has released an intriguing concept album in “Holy Murder Masquerade.” The said album’s lyrics are all connected conceptually in a slasher story of a deranged lunatic who goes about erasing his blood line because he believes he was spawn from evil. The murderer knows he is wrong, but escapes the guilt by hiding behind what his warped mind believes is a “skin mask fashioned from Jesus Christ’s face.” IMPIOUS could have related this story in conventional fashion, with the lyrics printed in white font; instead, the group conveys the lyrics through comic book illustrations.

Releases Reviews
Darren Cowan

IMPIOUS „“Holy Murder Masquerade””

Sweden’s IMPIOUS has released an intriguing concept album in “Holy Murder Masquerade.” The said album’s lyrics are all connected conceptually in a slasher story of a deranged lunatic who goes about erasing his blood line because he believes he was spawn from evil. The murderer knows he is wrong, but escapes the guilt by hiding behind what his warped mind believes is a “skin mask fashioned from Jesus Christ’s face.” IMPIOUS could have related this story in conventional fashion, with the lyrics printed in white font; instead, the group conveys the lyrics through comic book illustrations.

Interviews
Darren Cowan

SHADES OF DUSK – Interview with vocalist Joffrey Chouinard and guitarist Lous.

“Shades of dusk” is a colorful and descriptive phrase. When the earth turns away from the sun and daylight dies, the world is filled with a myriad of radiant colors, long shadows, and an absence of light. Quebec, Canada’s SHADES OF DUSK could not have picked a more fitting band moniker. The group’s debut album on Galy records, like a day’s end, is filled with both luminescence and dim darkness, often displaying both moods at the same time. Fans that revel in depressive death metal with a melodic edge in the tradition of Gothenburg’s pioneers read the following interview with SHADES OF DUSK’s vocalist Joffrey Chouinard and guitarist Lous.

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