Artist: Friends Of Hell
Title: Friends Of Hell
Label: Rise Above
Cat #: RISELP247
Release Year: 2022
Duration: Album
Format: Vinyl LP
Packaging Type: Gatefold Sleeve

Debut album containing 9-tracks of soul-crumbling classic doom metal!

Featuring former members of Reverend Bizarre, Electric Wizard, Impaled Nazarene and others.

Friends Of Hell draws from the most seminal of doom sources, saluting the great works of Pentagram, Candlemass, Saint Vitus and Cathedral along the way. But something nastier and grubbier lurks within the Friends Of Hell sound: a viscous, blackened streak that owes its leathery scars to Venom, Bathory and Hellhammer.

The resultant hybrid makes perfect, horrifying sense, as songs like rampaging opener Out With The Wolves and the harrowing crawl of Gateless Gate conjure devilry, disgust and riff-driven destruction in equal measure. Heavy as hell but defiantly gritty and underground in spirit, Friends Of Hell avows that the old school is the only school.

Not just one of the finest and fiercest doom metal records in recent memory, but also a subtly subversive twist on that arcane formula, Friends Of Hell once again confirms the timeless nature and the unerring, infernal power of The Riff.

Recommended if you like: Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Candlemass, St Vitus, Mercyful Fate, Electric Wizard, Cathedral, Reverend Bizarre, Slaegt, Satan, Count Raven, Savage Master

Track Listing:

Side One
1. Out With The Wolves
2. Shadow Of The Impaler
3. Into My Coffin
4. Friends Of Hell
5. Gateless Gate
Side Two
6. Evil They Call Us
7. Orion’s Beast
8. Belial’s Bell
9. Wallachia