Premiered on New Year’s Day, the first video from Friends of Hell is, among other things, delightfully informative. Amid its shot-in-a-cave redness, we find former Electric Wizard bassist Tasos Danazoglou (currently of Mirror) on drums — which, hey, good to know — and we find the band doomed as fuck. Quite, quite doomed. Doom. Fucking. Metal.

This is essentially what was promised by the new project, spearheaded by Danazoglou with Sami “Albert Witchfinder” Hynninen (Spiritus Mortis, Reverend Bizarre, Opium Warlords) on vocals, but it’s nice to hear it fulfilled from the chugging, downtrodden riffing and abiding sense of darkness that pervades. The Obsessed, Candlemass, maybe even some Saint Vitus in there — you may or may not know the drill, but I’m going to assume you do. It’s doom metal. A band doesn’t name itself after a Witchfinder General record if they’re coming along to screw around. And frankly, Rise Above Records doesn’t sign a doom band if they don’t have their shit in line.

“Shadow of the Impaler,” as noted, is the first glimpse at Friends of Hell‘s upcoming self-titled debut, which is out in March on Rise Above. I haven’t heard the full thing yet — I don’t even know who’s in the band besides Danazoglou and Hynninen — so I’m going in here as curious as anyone else and I won’t pretend otherwise, but I think you’ll get the feel for where they’re working from in terms of influence. They’re working from doom. Toward doom.

And if I can add to that: “doom.”

Fucking a.

Enjoy:

Friends of Hell, “Shadow of the Impaler” official video

Shadow Of The Impaler is the debut promo video from Friends Of Hell. Their self-titled debut album will be released worldwide on March 18th 2022. It’s a masterclass in classic Doom Metal. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Director / editor:
Pete Voutilainen

Camera:
Samu Hupli
Riku Hyötyläinen
Esa Valkeajärvi
Pete Voutilainen

Producer:
Esa Valkeajärvi

Production company:
One Eye Media

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Tags: Finland, Friends of Hell, Friends of Hell Self-titled, Rise Above Records, self-titled

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