North Carolina southern-fried sludge quartet Fireblood culminates a prolific year with their second EP, Goatslayer, slated for December 6th via ROT ROOM. The EP is a direct follow-up to the Hellalujah EP, released earlier this year.
About the band
Formed in 2023 by husband-and-wife duo Mike and Angel Rot, along with Thomas Stanfel and Travis Overcash, Fireblood are proud bearers of southern sludge metal’s torch… While lighting their own wicked flame. In the band’s own words: “The name Fireblood comes from drinking whiskey, the demon drink. And demons have fire in their veins.”
Taking the genre in a somehow meaner, more extreme direction, they employ massive atonal guitars, booming drums, and churning low end to create a caustic, thick-as-molasses sound that has a physical weight to its thunderous mid-tempo grooves. Lumbering ever forward, each stomping beat comes laden with the threat of eruption. Indeed, when the top does blow, it’s an explosion of seething rage. Atop the slabs of riffs grates vocalist Travis Overcash’s monstrous snarl, giving their self-described “Sludgy Southern Death Rock” its due in his unhinged, throat shredding delivery’s proximity to death metal.
About the upcoming EP
Fireblood’s upcoming EP, GoatSlayer, is an exploration of death and the choices one makes to survive. From the outset of opener A Perfect Place for Death, the band’s now signature sound makes itself immediately known. Grinding away through sludge and doom-fueled riffs with ill intent, Fireblood crawls and scrapes its way through to the epic seven-minute finisher A.I.G.O.D.! Indeed, a fittingly brutal longform end to the whole affair.
Tracklist:
1. A Perfect Place for Death
2. Death Comes Rolling
3. Burning Underground
4. A.I.G.O.D.
EP Credits:
Cover Art by Morbidusk.
Recorded at Elkin Sound Studio;
Mixed by Brandon Hamby;
Mastered by Dave Harris of Studio B.
Band Lineup:
Angel Rot – Bass
Mike Rot – Guitar
Thomas Stanfel – Drums
Travis Overcash – Vocals.
