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“…Grisley” – Metal Injection
https://metalinjection.net/av/full-album-stream/nightborn-streams-grisly-new-ep-hammer-of-the-heretic
“Godless will hammer you down!”
Story: Ralph Greco, Jr.
Nightborn releases their new EP, featuring four brand-new songs, as a follow-up to their 2022 album ‘Unhuman’. The band explains, “With ‘Hammer of the Herertic’, the idea was to experiment with different approaches and themes in each song, while maintaining that fast, dynamic, skull crushing beat that defines the Nightborn style.”
The first track, “Impenitent Ones,” is a straightforward, rhythmic, and chaotic thrash piece, with shrieking vocals designed to inspire instant headbanging, opening the EP with intensity. The theme of the song is autophagia. The second track, “Hammer of the Heretic,” is a more traditional thrash song but maintains the high energy, introducing a groovy and melodic midsection. The theme explores revenge by heretics against their inquisitors as well as bearing elements that relate to the philosophies of the occult. The third track, “Pulls of Darkness,” opens with an acoustic section and transitions into realms of melodic black metal at times, while still retaining Slayer-like riffing. The song delves into the allure of darkness that exists within every human being that we cannot escape. The final track, “The Undertow,” is a hard-hitting blast-beat-driven song that moves into death metal territories, with a hard and heavy groovy midsection. The theme of this song addresses pure hatred toward theocratic dictatorships and their inevitable fall.
For the recording of the EP, the frontman Arda used an extremely rare Ken Lawrence Explorer guitar, the only one of its kind in the world. This guitar played a crucial role in the creation of this EP, sparking inspiration. On each song, Arda, tried a different style of singing.
The aim was to create an atmosphere to grasp unrelenting, speed-driven thrash/death mania. The EP includes all music and lyrics written by Arda in classic Nightborn fashion, with Simon McKay (The Agonist) performing the drum parts, which were recorded and mixed at Chris Donaldson’s studios. Hubert Wiecek (Ex-Decapitated, Dieth, Blasphemer) handled the bass parts, and the EP was mixed and mastered by Remi LeGresley (Grizzly Productions) in Montreal, Canada.
Stream Hammer of the Heretic here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6iH4o6qyEToT7oA6X5XAGc?si=mJqsavqdQ4aVjBOlTv3K5Q
HAMMER OF THE HERETIC
I have lived
Far too long
So long I endured
All things end
Near me, it dwells
The illness can’t be cured
Hiding in the morrow
Those things of grief and sorrow
Fate’s a sea
Without a shore
No lead there to follow
Crushing
Bashing
Avenge
Hammer it down
Godless
Faithless
Saintless
Hammer it down
We have drunk
From rivers dark
Of rupture, ruin and rend
For no one will
Outlive his days
Not all knees can bend
Crushing
Bashing
Avenge
Hammer it down
Godless
Faithless
Saintless
Hammer it down
Existence is loneliness
Won’t laugh again nor weep
For there’s no God stronger than death
The beauty of its sleep
All you have
Won’t remain
In a world that’s faded grey
Judgement of the holy one
A mask that’s gone frail
Shadow of gods afar
The dimming weary star
Before I leave
One last time
Bury the snake of life
Crushing
Bashing
Avenge
Hammer it down
Godless
Faithless
Saintless
Hammer it down
Hammer of heresy
Hammer of heresy
Godless will hammer you down
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