{"id":29224,"date":"2026-10-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=29224"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:43:01","slug":"marvel-sanctemonium-ep-leather-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=29224","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e4rvel \u2013 \u2018Sanctemonium EP\u2019 (Leather Lake)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everyone\u2019s favourite masked marauders M\u00e4rvel return with a spooky-themed EP just in time for Halloween. Following up their 2025 long player \u2018Brain Drain Diaries\u2019 the Swedish purveyors of action rock deliver 2 cover versions, 2 from their back catalogue and one new song sung in their native tongue for good measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presumably a stopgap release between albums, \u2018Sanctemonium\u2019 is a whole lotta fun from the off. Alice Cooper\u2019s classic 80\u2019s single (from Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part IV) \u2018He\u2019s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)\u2019 has been crying out for a modern rock n\u2019 roll makeover, and M\u00e4rvel have stepped up. It\u2019s delivered in blood-splattered style, the added 70\u2019s riffage and Paul Stanley-esque vocalising elevate this version beyond the original\u2019s glam metal stylings, making it the song it shoulda\/coulda always been. All memories of a guitar gun-toting Kane Roberts looking like Rambo are replaced with 3 masked evil henchmen sounding like classic Kiss at their best\u2026Alice would be proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up, \u2018Alla Helgons Blodiga Natt\u2019 is the first song recorded in their native tongue. It translates as \u2018The Bloody Night of All Saints\u2019, and while I have no idea what The King is singing about, I get the gist from that title. A glorious 3-minute burst of 70\u2019s-inspired rock with more riffage and guitar harmonies than you can shake a stick at, all delivered with a Euro Rock feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m unaware of The Poppy Family, apparently, they were a big deal in their native Canada back in the 60\u2019s\/70\u2019s, where their song \u2018Where Evil Grows\u2019 was a top 10 smasher. M\u00e4rvel give it a rock n\u2019 roll update with rumbling bass, urgent drums and Marshall stacks. Now it sounds like an Imperial State Electric song\u2026tidy! A good tune is a good tune, everything else is production and delivery. Right, music lovers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Beautiful Corpse\u2019 from Brain Drain Diaries is not only horror-themed, but it also happens to be one of their best, most urgent-sounding rock hits. As infectious as gonorrhoea but twice as fun, if you\u2019ve not heard it before, you are in for a trick or treat! And finally, with all its evil intentions and dark intensity, \u2018Slasher With A Broken Heart\u2019 is a high-energy burst of action rock that embodies everything M\u00e4rvel do. It just so happens to have been inspired by the story of ABBA singer Agnetha and her stalker as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While not an essential release compared to their expansive discography, \u2018Sanctemonium\u2019 is certainly worth a listen on your streaming platform of choice over the spooky season. If it gets a physical release, it\u2019ll surely be on pumpkin orange vinyl. I\u2019m now left wanting to hear more M\u00e4rvel horror themed covers, how about the whole Fastway \u2018Trick Or Treat\u2019 album next year? I\u2019d buy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author : Ben Hughes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone\u2019s favourite masked marauders M\u00e4rvel return with a spooky-themed EP just in time for Halloween. Following up their 2025 long player \u2018Brain Drain Diaries\u2019 the Swedish purveyors of action rock deliver 2 cover versions, 2 from their back catalogue and one new song sung in their native tongue for good measure. Presumably a stopgap release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[726,1787,1211,1681,1680,2052],"class_list":["post-29224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-ben-hughes","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-marvel","tag-rpmnews1","tag-rpmonline","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29226,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions\/29226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}