German band Coma Beach enthrall with a stylish, impassioned rock sound throughout their new EP, Passion/Bliss. The release represents the third and final installment from their Scapegoat Revisited EP series, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of their debut album, The Scapegoat’s Agony, released in 1995. The band notes this new EP’s title as “an allusion to the play “Waiting for Godot” by Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett and points towards the – for the most part – painful and excruciating emotional odyssey of the unnamed antihero.”
“Passion” opens the EP with compelling intrigue. Hazy guitar strums and spoken-word ruminations on passion build with creakily enjoyable momentum, arising into the “where is my passion?” resonance as string-laden pulsations emanate alongside. A wailing electric guitar outpouring follows, audibly feeling like a shedding of palpable emotion as one laments a waning sense of well-being. “Bliss” follows with similarly captivating immersion, traversing from grungy guitar jangles into an erupting array of guitar distortion; “you’ll be happy when you don’t have to think,” angst-y vocals exude, conveying the tale of an antihero beholden to foreboding apocalyptic visions.
Elsewhere, “Nothing Right” showcases the band’s hard-rocking vigor, attaining a punk-friendly nostalgia in its ardent vocals and ceaseless bouts of distortion. “The Final Door” concludes the EP, continuing the prior track’s heavy rock appeal and growling vocal aggression. “Passion” and “Bliss” compel in their emotive, dynamic rock soundscapes, while the EP finishes with three tracks achieving an infectiously punk/hard-rock intertwining. The result is a gripping, enthusiastically memorable success of an EP from Coma Beach.
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“Passion” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup, as part of the artist’s promotional campaign.
