Coven by All Hallow's Evil

"8 out of 10" - Hellfire Magazine
https://www.hellfire-magazin.de/all-hallows-evil-coven/

"A great and rocking dive into the world of gothic heavy metal." - John Haseltine, Metal-Rules.com

Coven—pronounced with a long “o” in the Mark Borchardt tradition—is a Gothic Heavy Metal album equally influenced by 80s Ozzy, 90s Paradise Lost, and the 1982 Halloween episode of CHiPs where Donny Most plays a "devil rocker" named Moloch.

All Hallow’s Evil is Jay Gironimi, who played all the instruments. After 2 singles, 7 EPs, 8 full length albums and 3 re-recordings, he finally learned to play drums to record Coven.

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A Note from the Proprietor

After finishing The Grifted Age in March 2020, I had planned to roll right into working on a concept album about the end of the world. Turns out the apocalypse was less interesting than I had assumed.

But as the world burned/burns, I found I still wanted to play the fiddle. I wrote some aimless sketches until my wife gave me purpose: she wanted an album about witches.

Joke was on her, I made her write some lyrics.

I was hesitant at first, with witches being well worn metal ground, but the album slowly revealed itself, witches and I standing on the common ground of blasphemy. The concept freed me to write songs about possession and werewolves while still using these songs as an outlet for my anger at the ills of the world as I see them.

I guess the apocalypse finds it’s place, whether you want it to or not.

In any case, if you have not seen the 1982 Halloween episode of CHiPs, it’s one of my favorite pieces of television ever. Happy Days alum Donny Most plays a “devil rocker” named Moloch who rides in a bitchin’ hearse while made up like Gene Simmons with a red theme applied. The plot machinations are your standard tv fare, but the song Moloch sings, “Devil Take Me”, is a tremendous piece of work.

I wanted to make something that was as catchy as “Devil Take Me”, but with the heaviness of Paradise Lost and the flavor of Jake E. Lee era Ozzy. So I give you Coven, pronounced with a long “o” in deference to Mark Borchardt and his film of the same name.

I had also purchased a drum kit on the last day of 2019, which is probably one of the best times in history to have purchased a new instrument, so Coven marks the first All Hallow’s Evil album where I actually played the drums instead of programming or tapping them in by keyboard. I think it helped give a human feel to these songs about inhuman and inhumane things.

I have lived with these songs for three years and I’m very excited for them to live with you now.

-Jay Gironimi (rhymes with astronomy)
All Hallow's Evil

All Hallow's Evil embodies the synthesis of medication and man, as the man behind All Hallow's Evil is mostly medication. Rumors say that Jay Gironimi has actually been dead for 5 years and this is just gas escaping the body.

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