Get ready to headbang your way through “A Madman’s Dream/Mind Descending” EP by German band, Coma Beach!
The alternative/rock five-track EP follows the story of an antihero facing the turbulence of life and pretty much loses his mind entirely. Formed by singer B. Kafka, guitarist Captain A. Fear, drummer M. Lecter, with bassist U. Terror and rhythm guitarist M. Blunt, Coma Beach hails from Würzburg, Germany, and their sound is very dark and daring.
Tracklist:
- A Madman’s Dream – Single Version
- Mind Descending – Single Version
- Absurd – Radio Edit
- I Won’t Listen – Original Version – Radio Edit
- Jesus’ Tears – Radio Edit
Their previous release was actually back in 1995, when the tracks on the EP were originally released in an album titled “The Scapegoat’s Agony. Organized and assembled together in the new EP, the songs carry a new flavour of tenebrosity and an advanced sound featuring vocal growls by B. Kafka and impeccable guitar strikes of Captain A. Fear.
“The album title is an allusion to the play “Waiting for Godot” by Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett,” shared the band. “And points towards the – for the most part – painful and excruciating emotional odyssey of the unnamed antihero.”
You follow the story of said antihero throughout the first track, “A Madman’s Dream” as he descends into madness in a full sound of insane drumming and oscillating vocals that jump from left to right and vice versa, emulating the mad mind of our antihero. As you listen throughout the EP, you can almost feel like you, yourself, are losing your mind too.
“Absurd” takes you on a journey of death and agony, calling life “absurd” and ridiculous, while “I Won’t Listen” carries the title effortlessly to paint the perfect picture of the antihero completely losing sense of reality from his surroundings. A guitar solo ensues in the middle of the track that transitions the song from a slow agonizing journey into an upbeat vibe that picks up the pace till the end of the track.
Overall, the EP is solid rock music that features lyrical genius by the band, which is satirical and sarcastic, and might have you chuckling in the midst from the dark humour that it carries. With influences of Sex Pistols, Ramones, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain to Guns N’ Roses seeping its way into the music, the EP is without a doubt a guilty pleasure for rock enthusiasts.
