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Last year I met a friend of mine who had just come out of a Weedeater concert, and I had him tell me everything since I wasn't able to attend. This was his response: "well, Weedeater were as engaging as always, and supporting them were some band called Dragged Into Sunlight.... who played.. I don’t know.. death metal...."
I hadn't thought about them until two weeks ago when I stumbled upon their vinyl at my trusted record store…. since then I haven't been able to stop listening to them. "Hatred For Mankind" is dirty, violent, and sincere. The raw death metal in the style of Benediction blends with the roughest and fastest black metal, only to be mutilated by sludge doom incursions. The record opens with "Boiled Angels, Buried with Leeches," and immediately drags us into 11 minutes and 20 seconds of fury, sometimes slow and claustrophobic, sometimes fast and nervous, led by a rather hardcore voice, angry and never excessively guttural or shrill.
The fast and relentless "Volcanic Birth" follows, considered by many as the most successful moment of the album, which definitively hurls us into the guts of HFM, raging on for another three tracks until the concluding and droning "Totem of Skulls."
"Hatred For Mankind" is a straightforward and no-frills work, far from being visionary or avant-garde. It will surely delight those who, like me, appreciate Gnaw Their Tongues, Eyehategod, Mayhem (the ones with Euronymous), and the new generation of blackened crust.
The artwork is by Justin Bartlett, already in the service of Sunn o))), Trap Them, and the band from our country, The Secret. To see his hallucinatory works, I direct you to his website.
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