Review: Bohren & der Club of Gore – Beileid
I’ve been following Ipecac Records pretty much since its inception twelve years ago. This is the third release they’ve put out by German band Bohren & der Club of Gore. For some reason, I never really looked into this band. But after hearing Beileid, I really should go through their back-catalog.
Bohren & der Club of Gore is a slow, dark, ambient jazz band that (although not heavy) has some doom metal qualities about it. It’s very high hat and saxaphone driven. Picture Bernard Herrmann’s Taxi Driver score mixed with a Black Sabbath kind of song structure.
Clocking in at 35 minutes, Beilied is composed of three songs. The opening and closing tracks are the kind of ambiance mentioned above. The middle track is too. But it’s also a cover of Warlock’s power ballad Catch My Heart with Mike Patton on vocals.
Anyway, this album is fantastic. If you live in Europe, you should totally have it by now, and if you’re in the states with me, it’s being released by Ipecac on Tuesday.
