Under the open sky, and across hot desert landscapes, the faithless characters of Helldorado’s world burn holes in our souls. Sinful Soul has been generously layered with strings, horn section, piano and back up singers and beautifully mastered by Barry Diament. Helldorado presents cinematic music inspired by Morricone and Tarrantino, epic and dramatic murder ballads, Americana, and Rock Noir with a flare for B-movies ala Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! Horn sections are added like habanero peppers to an open wound. There’s also more than a hint of Nick Cave in Dag S Vagle’s songs and voice, and in a fair and just world, Helldorado would find similar amounts of fawning press coverage and sales. Blood Shack’s clattering tale of lust and vampirism sets the mood, and the other 11 tracks are filled with epic quantities of murder, deceit, guts, gore, hellfire and brimstone, all of it leavened with a dark, twisted sense of humour. (album), their 1984 self-titled album 'W.A.S.P. The band is virtually unknown in the United States, but they have a strong fanbase in their home country and Turkey.“This is an aptly named album by this excellent Norwegian outfit - their echoey, gothic take on rock’n’roll drips atmosphere and attitude, and would be perfect soundtracking some Quentin Tarantino flick. They draw inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including Spaghetti Western, film noir, Country Gothic/ cowpunk/ country rock/ Americana, garage rock, surf rock, psychobilly/ gothabilly, and Tex-Mex/ mariachi. All the elements are there that youd expect - great catchy songwriting, tonnes of quality guitar solos from Chris Holmes, Blackies signature grating vocals and lyrics about sex, sex and more sex. Helldorado is an alternative country rock band from Norway. Helldorado, rather than being a thorn in WASPs side, is a confident, raw, stripped-down WASP album with more decent songs in their classic 80s vein. Year Album Label AllMusic Rating User Ratings. Checkpoint Charlie Audio Productions (CCAP) Album Discography full condensed blue highlight denotes album pick Filter Discography By Albums Singles & EPs All.
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