After a few years and a boatload of EPs the devilish one-man act known as Golden Bats has finally released a full-length album! "Residual Dread" drags you wailing along a gravel road and into the depths with heavy, dingy doom played with sharp, rusty sludge tones. This album fills the role of a gravedigger - it's dreary, morose, a bit grisly, and beneath the glum appearance there's a whole lot of taut, wiry muscle used for putting people underground. A constant doom metal undercurrent churns with that understated strength while savage, corrosive vocals rain down from on high spraying the songs with a bitter venom. Meanwhile, melancholic melodies will stalk you over the course of each track only to emerge from the shadows when you least expect them and strike with sorrowful guitar leads, organs, and keys. The result sounds like it could have been lifted from a Transylvanian funeral if it was mashed up with a back-alley knife fight. Songs creep slowly with riffs swinging in a dangerous, steady rhythm like a mace at the end of a pendulum. At the end there's even a whiff of black metal spirit blowing in the cold, deathly wind. No doubt this is one for the wicked - needs to be played 'til it disintegrates your skin or dismantles your soul - or maybe both! -Brandon
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