Japan’s Gallhammer have completed work on their third studio album, titled The End, to be released May 2011 on Peaceville Records.
The End evolves further from the foundations of Ill Innocence & debut album Gloomy Lights, with an album of disturbing & dark drone music with a hypnotic bass & drum combination mixed with the band’s raw black metal & punk origins. Founding member Vivian Slaughter (bass/vocals) describes the overall album direction as "strange & psychedelic experimental sounds of doom". The End, was recorded at Void)))Lab, Tokyo, in October 2010 & mastered in Oslo February 2011 by Vivian & Maniac (Skitliv, ex-Mayhem).
The band’s previous album, Ill Innocence, was released in 2007, bringing the band to the attention of the metal world with their uncompromising raw, blackened doom sounds, followed by European tours & culminating in the band gracing the cover of the UK’s Terrorizer & Zero Tolerance magazines.
GALLHAMMER IS: Vivian Slaughter – Bass, Vocals, Saxophone, Risa Reaper – Drums, Vocals |
