Music Review // Heavenly Trip To Hell "Pumpkin Man"

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Heavenly Trip To Hell begins this four song EP with a tight grip on the listener and it never lets up.  From start to finish, this EP is just pure metal with that feeling of getting thrown into a wall and then being constantly punched.   There is a certain genius that comes with creating metal because everything has to line up just so and the guitar riffs have to be killer and Heavenly Trip To Hell hits all of those spots perfectly.   This EP is, start to finish, one of the finest pieces of metal music I have ever heard.

The first song is the titular track and it is about a character called "Pumpkin Man".   As per the lyrics, Pumpkin Man is "Born of fire / Born of hate" and this makes me want to imagine him going around with a giant pumpkin for a head that's on fire- like Ghost Rider but more evil.  Bands like Scars of Tomorrow and Dead To Fall can be heard through the screaming and this is just one of the best songs created about a horror character out there today.

"Vivid Dreams" is the second song, which has the band name in it, and there are also some synths which join in and that's nice.   There is a line at first that says "Sold her soul to rock n roll / Sex and drugs is all she knows" but then later they repeat the lines "We sold our souls to rock n roll / Anarchy is all we know", just to give you an idea of how that song goes.  "Systematic" begins with an audio clip from the Ronald Reagan "A Time for Choosing" speech.  This has some punk elements within the metal and most of all is just about standing up to evil.  (Hint: Metal is not the evil ones)

By the end we have a song called "Arturo Huizar" which has elements of Rob Zombie but just also reminds me of songs which were on the radio and considered to be in the metal genre during the mid to late 1990's.   Just that idea of nostalgia but keeping it ass-kicking enough to be modern as well makes me really enjoy this EP.  Whatever you're doing, whatever reason you need to get that anger out, let this be your soundtrack to plow through.