Vexing Hex - Haunt EP review
About the band
Vexing Hex are a three piece Horror Metal band from Illinois they have released 2 albums, they released Haunt in 2018. They signed to Wise Blood Records in October 2020 and re-released haunt through them
The review
‘Haunt’ is a 7 song EP, ‘Hymn’ is the opener and doesn’t have any lyrics, it sounds like a medieval chorus almost. we go from the almost calming first track to a slow but powerful guitar and what sounds like cymbals and an organ in ‘Revenant’ its recommencement of bands like Kiss and Type O Negative, the inclusion of Latin in the lyrics is an interesting choice and fits well with the theme of the album, its the longest song on the record at just over 7 minutes and doesn’t have much of a tone change.
Planet horror begins with a drum then morphs into what sounds like a theremin, we go back into regular instruments after that, the rest of the album follows a very similar formula up until ‘Thy will be done’ which begins with an acoustic guitar, its a lot more laid back than previous songs, the last song ‘Rise from your grave’ begins with a solo electric guitar similar to the acoustic in ‘Thy will be done’. As a whole it sounds like almost like an early goth rock album, it reminds me of bands like Type O Negative or Christian Death.
Cover artwork by Chris Cadaverus
Logo design by Dan Capp
In Conclusion
I enjoyed this EP, I love goth rock and I think it fits really well into that category, I also love the band ghost and Vexing Hex seem very inspired by them too, Its a really well put together release and i’ll definitely be looking more into their music