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Black vinyl with gatefold cover

What will strike you when you hear Bloody Hammers for the first time is their very intelligent doom metal sound. On their fourth album the band have increased their portion of keyboards but they still sound very dark and credibly heavy. The opening track Bloodletting On The Kiss song doesn’t feature any guitars (other than a bass guitar) for the entire first half of the song. Rather than guitars, the first half of the song is dominated by dark and apocalyptic sounding keyboards, as well as soft and low vocals by singer and mainman Anders Manga. When the song intensifies, the keyboards still remain, but they remain as effective as when they dominated the intro. Bloody Hammers keep this keyboard driven sound through most of Lovely Sort of Death, and also maintain the slow gothic sound on a few other songs such as The Reaper Comes, which does have some keys, but its rhythm mostly concentrates on gently played guitars and no drums until halfway through the song, after which there still aren’t that many drums to speak of. Infinite Gaze To The Sun is the first taste of speaker shaking heavy metal heard on the album. Stoke The Fire further intensifies things before Ether takes things down a bit with its slow groovy sound. All three of these tracks, particularly the latter two, remind me of the doom metal sound Bloody Hammers displayed on their previous album. Astral Traveller, which is the fourth heavy song heard a bit later on, is another fast and dominant track similar to Stoke The Fire. Bloody Hammers have created a very dark and interesting album that cannot be overlooked, for it is just one of those albums that demands to be heard and it’s very clear why upon investigation. Doom, goth and occult rockers should check this out

Track list:
1. Bloodletting On The Kiss
2. Lights Come Alive
3. The Reaper Comes
4. Messalina
5. Infinite Gaze To The Sun
6. Stoke The Fire
7. Ether
8. Shadow Out Of Time
9. Astral Traveller
10. Catastrophe