Californian death/doom metal band Holy Death released their new covers EP feat. Metallica’s »Sad But True«!

Long Beach, California based death/doom metal band Holy Death has just released their new covers EP »Sad But True« on October 31st, 2024. Available noe on all major streaming platforms.

Tracklist:
01. Sad But True (Metallica cover)
02. Creeping Death (Metallica cover)
03. Wolverine Blues (Entombed cover)

Holy Death commented: “This Halloween will mark 5 years of Holy Death.

While we work on releasing our new LP we wanted to release this cover to pay respects to a band/song that is a massive influence, Metallica’s »Sad But True«.

In addition, we included two newly re-mixed and re-mastered covers we previously released.

Thank you to everyone that has supported this band the past 4 years.”

Holy Death is a sonically oppressive heavy metal outfit based out of Long Beach, California that offer a unique take on death doom – drawing inspiration from bands like Entombed, Crowbar, Obituary and Sleep.

In 2022, the band released »Moral Terror« – produced by Alex Estrada / The Pale Moon Ranch (Nails, Xibalba). Shortly after the release of this record singer/guitarist Torie John was diagnosed with cancer. The band decided to track a live session before Torie John began treatment. In November 2022 the band spent a day with producer Riff at his studio Riff Audio in Burbank, CA. The recordings from that day were released in 2023 as »Neck Wound Session«.

Performed by Holy Death.
Produced by Torie John & Holy Death.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Torie John at Beach City Audio.
Additional engineering and production on Wolverine Blues by Andrew Solis at Deadstare Audio.
Art by CVSPE.

»Sad But True« written by James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich and performed by Metallica (James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett & Jason Newsted).

»Creeping Death« written & performed by Metallica (James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett & Cliff Burton).

»Wolverine Blues« written and performed by Entombed (Andersson, Cederlund, Hellid).

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