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Worshipper Post “Darkness” Video

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Boston’s Worshipper offer a suitably crisp reminder of the quality of hooks proffered on their debut album last year with their new video. The clip, for the cut “Darkness,” is somewhat obscure visually, but the message could hardly come through clearer. Shadow Hymns (review here) was released by Tee Pee Records and found a place for itself on the fine line between heavy rock and classic metal, managing to harness an atmospheric presence amid what was otherwise unabashed structural traditionalism.

I called it one of 2016’s best debuts, and it easily was that, but it was also one of the most individualized, refusing to bow to aesthetic when it might cost Worhispper some detriment to songwriting.

Maybe that doesn’t make sense until you actually hear what guitarist/vocalist John Brookhouse, guitarist Alejandro Necochea, bassist/backing vocalist Bob Maloney and drummer Dave Jarvis proffer on a song like “Darkness,” but the niche they craft between familiarity and nuance of style and performance is something special and something particularly rare for bands making their debut. The interplay of acoustic and electric guitar on “Darkness,” for example, could otherwise consume the work of groups looking to indulge some progressive vision, but Worshipper back away from this impulse and instead let the track’s chorus do the talking for them.

With Brookhouse‘s vocals out front, the scorch-prone leads of Necochea peppered with class throughout, and the dead-aheadĀ drive from Jarvis and Maloney, the execution of “Darkness” happens smoothly and efficiently, and the song is lean without giving up a natural feel. They probably could’ve picked any number of tracks fromĀ Shadow Hymns and made a video for it and I’d say the same thing, but that doesn’t make it any less true. It just makes it a really good album.

Credits follow the clip below. Please enjoy:

Worshipper, “Darkness” official video

WORSHIPPER – “Darkness” from the album ‘Shadow Hymns’
Music by Worshipper
Lyrics by John Brookhouse

Directed by Duncan Wilder Johnson
http://www.dwjcreative.com

Art Direction by Bob Maloney

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