Dolium

Rock ‘n’ ghoul music. Songs about having “holes in your neck,” “coughin’ in the coffin,” and seeing no reflection, kind of sum it up, really. Combine Murderdolls with the machine-gun delivery of We Are The Physics and you have Dolium, a boy / girl combo with a penchant for the Dark Side. (That just about takes care of the first two tracks, ‘You’ve Got Holes,’ and ‘(She Can’t) Stake My Heart.’

Third track ‘Oh Lord, I See No Reflection,’ holds back on the pace and chugs along with heavy bass, drums and vocals alone for the first half of the song, before it gathers strength with the added droned guitar. Where this and the other three tracks really scores though, is in the sinister and disturbing sounding backing vocals / harmonies provided by Ms De Vine.

By far the best of the four tracks is the final one, ‘Coughin’ In The Coffin.’ The pace matches that of a funeral march and is genuinely very creepy and atmospheric.

The trouble with this genre of music is that there is only a narrow margin within which to operate. There is little room for real creativity, the result being that much of it all sounds too familiar. Taken on its own merits, this is an enjoyable means of passing twelve minutes – even if it has all been done before.