Track By Tracks: Demonessa - Taste Of Blood (2026)

Taste of Blood started as a more melancholic song with some heavy inspiration from Van Halen, and some of those elements definitely are still there. But the song was about to become some Frankenstein’s monster of different riffs and parts, so I decided to tone it down, for the listeners' sake and also my own, because, you know, that Eddie boy actually knew how to play guitar.

The story of the song is about a vampire who wakes up in great hunger and hunts down her victim, but gets so lost in the ecstasy of killing that she doesn’t notice when the sun is rising, and she ends up killing herself in the process.

Witch’s Brew is one of the wilder songs. With an unpredictable structure (for our standards), this song will keep you on the edge of your seat, thinking what could possibly happen next. The instruments on their own tell a certain story with a bit darker chainsaw main riff, but going towards the chorus, there’s some glimmer of hope present. But the lyrics take it a step further, where at the end all hope is lost for our main character, and it’s the witch herself that ends up being victorious. Good for her, I guess.

These songs were among the many songs that were contenders for our debut album, but because we didn’t wanna make a one and a half hour long album, and these two songs had similar horror themes and vibes, our singer had a bright idea of releasing them on Halloween as a bonus single or EP.

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