Golgotha, the legendary spanish Doom/Death band, confirms its comeback with a new EP.
The band’s career was not easy: Vicente J. Paya (guitar, Bis•nte, Unbounded Terror) and Amon López (vocals, ex-FireSword) create the band in 1993, then put it on hiatus after two albums. The guitarist revives the band with mainly Dave Rotten (Avulsed, Christ Denied, Holycide…) on vocals, then disappeared again. We have to wait until 2018 for a new EP and 2019 for an album. In 2021, the two founding members, accompanied by Tomeu Crespí (drums, Hyde XXI), Andrew Spinosa (bass, In War, Unbounded Terror, ex-Goreinhaled) and Samuel Morales (guitar, ex-Helevorn) offer us Remembering the Past – Writing the Future.
This EP is quite special for the band, because it allows them to offer us a new composition, but also to come back on some classics from their discography. We begin with Don’t Waste Your Life, a quite heady and haunting song, that welcomes clean vocals as well as cavernous growl, creating this seizing contrast we love in this style. Harmonics fly into this veil of melancholy, that introduces a second voice, then rage closes the song before Helpless, from the 2018 EP. The song keeps this identity made of duality in both voice and rhythmic, while being still weighing. I Am Lost comes from the 2005 album, and it is accompanied by orchestrations that the band’s riffs are unveiled to add majestic tones to this dark music. We continue with the soft Elemental Changes, extract from the eponymous album, that also offers some keyboards to support a heavy and haunting, but also very catchy rhythmic. We feel the band’s will and the musician’s rage at the same time before Lonely, a composition from the band’s first album. This song is probably one of the most representative of the band’s music, that also shows the evolution between their firsts productions and their current style. A female voice joins the band a bit before the end of the song, that will burst into fire for an intense final.
Whether Golgotha doesn’t deny its past, the band reworks it. Remembering the Past – Writing the Future allows the spanishs to move forward while bringing the long forgotten interesting and melodic compositions back to life.
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