My Review: The Black Capes - Looks Like Death

The Black Capes - Looks Like Death

It's back to Greece, with an album released last year, evocative and Hamletic, on which the scribe has now decided it's the right time to get his hands on, in that hardened, dark-hearted heart that won him over on release. When Gothic Rock decides to take off its armour, to take two steps, lighten up a little and establish that the time has come to stand in a medieval spirit clinging to a hypothetical ancient Darkwave, then a miracle presents its robes and that muscle inside the chest here crumbles, tilting our heads for a collection of immense pearls. There are moments when the Greeks indulge in almost pop solutions (the attack of Love is Love), an almost heavy metal hardness (Apathy), with a skin-warming organ, but then they establish that they cannot limit themselves and continue, always keeping a faithful approach to the need to be knights in descent towards the centre of the earth. It is a work that shows eclectic minds, a wide-ranging projectuality and the ability to give the musical genres involved a different breath, but always with great confidence. The Black Capes deserve a very long applause, a devotion, at a time when many bands have lost their vigour, they are running very well with their blanket of skulls and moods sons of the full moon...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

12th April 2023

https://theblackcapes.bandcamp.com/album/looks-like-death