![]() This adds to the album’s diversity and thus makes it even more entertaining.Ĭonsistency-wise, the release is quite solid. The album’s genre is generally hard to define considering some songs (like "To Hieron") reassemble death metal/grindcore spirit (change the production and the guitar sound, and you will get a great track for Misery Index’s debut), some follow a more death metal structure ("Boiled Angel") and some ("Lashed to the Grinder and Stoned to Death", " I, Aurora") seem to be a mixture of everything humanely possible. thrash? solos (such as the one of "Buried with Leeches"). Despite the consistent evil mood, the album is not mere white noise and shifts between black/death metal riffs ("Boiled Angel", "Volcanic Birth") and. The sporadic inhuman screeching and growling are nicely merged with creepy audio samples adding to the album’s atmosphere (unlike in the case of Mortician, where they merely make the songs two times longer and get annoying over time, here they make the album much grimmer). Without any introduction, the album plunges at you with raw, infernal guitars alongside ferocious drumming. And I can guarantee that so far it was one of the best recommendations I’ve got in my whole life. The name seemed curious to me and I’ve decided to check the debut album out. While looking for "evil" metal albums, I came across a Reddit post advising this band. In hindsight I should have begun my death/doom journey with Into Darkness. Another downside is that the songs are REALLY draining to listen to, to the point I would not listen to this at all if I'm not fully energized, this album is so fucking evil it can suck out every bit of mental stamina from you, to the point that I would describe listening to this as an endurance test.īloody well done you fucking tea addicts, you managed to create something so crushing, so evil, that most people who listened to this cannot help but recoil in fear from the sheer raw hatred and misanthropy coming from this album, and I cannot thank this band enough for creating such a depressing masterpiece. For one, the samples do get stale pretty quickly considering how frequent they utilize these elements. This is an album not for listening, but for torture sessions like an enhanced interrogation technique (Jokes on you, I'm into that shit!) seen in 24.Īlthough I enjoyed every single second of the album, I do have some criticisms towards this album. You can feel the cold hearts of these motherfuckers (serial killers) and their raw misanthropy coming from the music itself, if anything I feel Hatred For Mankind is a name TOO fitting for this album, to the point I cannot imagine any other album bearing this name without sounding just as evil and raw. Maybe doom was really the missing link to true expression of evil in music.Įverything about this album just screams raw and unfiltered, and much like the evils of these serial killers have done to their victims. ![]() While the latter two bands played music that is ultimately just fast as a means of expressing themselves, what DiS managed to do is giving the hatred, malice, and evil of mankind into an audible form. I have never listened to a combination of black/death/doom/sludge that is as heavy, despairful, and intimidating as this, not even bands like Revenge or Knelt Rote. ![]() Scratch that, you cannot even take a break during the samples because some were played during some really heavy sections, and oh God do they fit into those sections. But this does not make their debut any less impactful because unlike those 2 bands, their first (and fortunately not the only) album starts with a short sample from Charles Manson then immediately pummels you with song headcrushing riffs and relentless drumming, catching me off guard and never letting my ears go until the album ends, with various snippets from serial killers as a brief reprieve. Well that was a fucking mistake because I am utterly unprepared for what was in store for me.ĭragged Into Sunlight is a British Band that is surprisingly recent to the genre, being founded in 2006 when most of the big names like Disemboweled and Winter have been around for over a decade by that point. After being strangely obsessed with listening to death/doom for months but without the time nor motivation to actually do it (thanks procrastination/university finals!), I've finally decided that its time and proceed to look for the filthiest, slimiest, most pulverizing death/doom that exists out there.
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