DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT — Hatred for Mankind (review)

DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT — Hatred for Mankind album cover Album · 2009 · Death-Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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"Hatred for Mankind" is the debut full-length studio album by UK blackened death/doom/sludge metal act Dragged Into Sunlight. The album was released through the Mordgrimm label in September 2009. Dragged Into Sunlight formed in 2006 and their first release was a collaboration EP/mini-album with Kas Mana titled "Terminal Aggressor" which was released in March 2009.

If the unnerving and vile cover artwork (which is somehow made even more eerie by the fact that it almost looks like it´s made by a child) doesn´t tell you that this will be an incredibly dark, savage, and hateful listening experience, the "Hatred for Mankind" album title definitely should...and here´s one of those cases where album title, cover artwork, lyrics, and music go hand in hand. This is gloomy, bleak, and hateful blackened death/doom/sludge metal, featuring an oppressive and claustrophobic atmosphere (helped along by eerie voice samples from movies), which feels like it´s designed to cause you harm.

The music is relatively varied in pace and Dragged Into Sunlight master both fast-paced brutal and aggressive death metal and slower doom/sludgy parts (which sometimes remind me of what Eyehategod would sound like it they went all-in on a blackened death metal sound) with the same confidence and conviction. The vocals are brutal and caustic aggressive growling and screaming, and they are generally very well performed, adding another caustic angry element to the already vicious assault on your ears.

So this is overall a highly aggressive and brutal sounding release, but the strength of "Hatred for Mankind" is actually the balance Dragged Into Sunlight are able to create with some atmospheric (still dark and morbid) sounding parts (like the clean singins choir part on "I, Aurora"), which means the tracks never feel long or like they outstay their welcome even though most of them are actually pretty long. "Hatred for Mankind" features six tracks and a total playing time of 51:37 minutes and four out of those six tracks are either close to being 10 minutes long or exceed 10 minutes in length.

The filthy, organic, and savage sounding production values are to my ears a stroke of genius. "Hatred for Mankind" sounds crushingly heavy and brutal, but still features enough clarity for the listener to be able to hear all details of the music. It´s a perfect production job for this type of music. So upon conclusion "Hatred for Mankind" is a high quality debut album from Dragged Into Sunlight. This does not sound like a debut album at all. These guys sound like they know exactly what they want to do with their music and everything on this album works well together. There´s nothing here which doesn´t fit or which sounds awkward. It´s a perfect bleak, brutal, and savage listening experience and a 4.5 star (90%) rating is deserved.
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