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Artist
Golgotha
12+ albums
doom metalDeath Doom Metaldeath metalspanishdeath-doom metal
about
1) An oldschool Sludge/Thrash metal band from Louisiana, United States. The band is a direct precursor to legendary Sludge band, Acid Bath. 2) Jose Castro (Keyboardist/Lyricist) started to compose many songs in mid-2002, influenced not only by classical and opera music, but also heavy metal and goth metal. Mixing them all together seemed impossible at first, but after a while Jose succeeded in combining metal with classical, e.g., string melodies and heavy guitars simultaneously. Jose started composing songs for his solo career after a failed deal a major R&B record. Jose felt as though he needed to reach for a place he couldn’t go doing R&B, so he decided to work with his two strongest passions: metal and classical. After about a year of writing, Jose noticed he could not play piano, drums, guitars, and bass on his own. After recruiting his brother Chris, they began to work together on Jose’s music for a couple of weeks, before meeting guitarist Abriel Griffin. The three worked together for a while, then decided in 2005, to make an EP titled Ghost. Everything was going great, except that Jose wrote too many songs to choose from. So they chose to do a whole album, keeping the title Ghost and ending up with 15 songs. The most popular songs on the album were put onto myspace, where they received thousands of plays. Of these, the songs "Lost", “Ghost”, “Far Away,” and "Dreamcatcher" were 4 of the most listened-to. About a month after the album was complete, Chris and Jose lo
