Description
For their latest third full studio album, Sanguivore, UK fivepiece Creeper made a blood pact to give full rein to those things that truly define them to take a flaming torch to the more dimly lit recesses of frontman Will Goulds everfertile mind.Result 40plus minutes of music combining the grandiose and the epic with the punk rock spirit that has been a cornerstone of the Creeper sound since their 2017 debut a ripped leather jacket wrapped in a plush velvet cloak a cloak lined in red satin, of course.Drawing inspiration from folklore and myth, the more shadowy side of popular culture, Creeper have staked out a space that is their own a misty world of gothic imagery and dark romance, of crypts and castle ruins, the unrequited and the undead a world where love comes at a price and beauty smiles with sharpened teeth.From opening statement Further Than Forever, a nineminute, multilayered tourdeforce sure to put a smile on the face of the late Jim Steinman, through to closer Spook And Mercy, a latenight tale of little Mercy and her ravenous exploits, Sanguivore is a hugely ambitious, loosely conceptual journey through the glorious and the graphic.
