American sludge/southern metal outfit Fireblood released their debut EP »Hellalujah«, availble now on CD and digital format

Charlotte, North Carolina based sludge/southern metal outfit Fireblood stream their debut EP, »Hellalujah«, which was released April 1st, 2024.

Listen to »Hellalujah« EP on Spotify and other streaming platforms!

Tracklist:
01. Decomposition
02. All Out War
03. Who’s Your Devil?
04. Like Blood Down The River

Fireblood is a sludge/doom/death metal band from Charlotte, NC, influenced by their Southern roots and punk/metal backgrounds.

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. 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, and 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 “death rock” its due in his unhinged, throat-shredding delivery’s proximity to death metal.

Fireblood’s debut EP, »Hellalujah«, stormed listeners’ gates on April 1st 2024, and their tattered, crimson-stained flag has already found purchase in the heavy underground.

Featured on Doom Charts, Weedian, Cave Dweller Music, and more, the southern four-piece are riding on the strength of a debut that has the feel of a veteran band of the scene.

Four tracks of punishing, sneering heavy that groove as much as they grind, »Hellalujah« takes cues from Red Fang’s flirtations with dissonance and Noothgrush’s savage walls of sound to create a ferocious declaration of intent.

Order »Hellalujah« EP on CD here:
fireblood.bandcamp.com/album/hellalujah

Fireblood is hitting the road across the south & Midwest in America spring & summer 2024 and planning to expand across the US and into the UK in 2025.

Fireblood is:
Angel Rot – Bass
Mike Rot – Guitar
Thomas Stanfel – Drums
Travis Overcash – Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well