Today, Shadow Kingdom Records announces
the signing of the legendary Hour of 13
for the release of their long-awaited fourth album, Black Magick Rites, on CD, vinyl
LP, and cassette tape formats.
By now, Hour of 13 should require
little introduction. For the better part of two decades, mainman Chad Davis has
pursued a unique and intensely personal iteration of traditional doom metal.
Along the way and over the course of three albums and numerous EPs, Hour of 13 have built a
formidable discography that's amassed a fanatic following awaiting each spooky
'n' somber offering Davis and his rotating cast of cohorts creates. And while
he's released records for a variety of labels over the years, in between a
couple breakups, Davis brings Hour of 13 back
to Shadow Kingdom, who released
the band's self-titled debut album in 2007 long before the hype started.
Hour of 13's first full-length
offering in over eight years, Black Magick Rites was
available digitally on November 1st, 2020 for only 24 hours. Just as
uniquely, Black Magick Rites also marks
the first Hour of 13 album where he
handles not only all instruments, but also all vocals. Indeed, Davis' vocals
evoke an ancient nostalgia, of doom metal before it was "doom metal"
- of the days when bands like Black Sabbath, Pagan Altar, and Witchfinder
General simply followed their respective muses wherever it took them. And for
Davis, Black Magick Rites sees him taking
his Hour of 13 muse toward a
rougher, more rock 'n' roll expression and yet tinged with an emotive
melancholy that resonates deeply within the soul. No, no flavor-of-the-week
"occult rock" cliches here, for Davis still prizes blue-collared
authenticity in his doom, but he likewise never lets it hamper his immediately
recognizable songwriting, which here ever so subtly inches closer to classic
deathrock territory (think the likes of early Christian Death and Voodoo
Church). Naturally, with a title like Black Magick Rites,
an indulgence in occultism is expected, and you can literally feel the fingers
of the black beyond reaching out to you across every electric minute of this
44-minute monolith.
Despite those isolated breakups, Hour of 13 continue
to get better with age. Perfectly titled as any record in their enviable
discography, Black Magick Rites is the
sweet sound of salvation...through damnation.
Release date, cover art, tracklisting, and preorder info to be announced
shortly.
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