Topic: The Eli Cook Band ''ElectricHolyFireWater'
Do you dig the blues but love metal too? Well here's an album that can satisfy both at the same time. On their third album, power trio The Eli Cook Band concoct a great mix of down and dirty blues mixed with Black Label Society styled heavy riff metal, resulting in not only a collection which is true to the roots but one you could mosh to also.
Not far removed from what bands like Corrosion Of Conformity, Clutch and the previously mentioned BLS are doing, the 13 tracks found here are melodic in a modern heavy rock sense, but over the top of the crushing riffs one can hear guitarist Cook's roots in Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. From the opening heaviness of "Santeria Shakedown" you get an immediate suspicion that B.B. King this ain't. And you'd be right. .......
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