Artist: Khemmis 
Title: Doomed Heavy Metal
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Cat #: SPIN125
Release Year: 2020
Duration: EP
Format: CD 
Packaging Type: Digipak

Since joining with 20 Buck Spin in 2015 for the release of their debut album ‘Absolution’, Khemmis have been prolifically busy. Three full-length albums, ‘Absolution’, ‘Hunted’ and ‘Desolation’, a split EP with Spirit Adrift, a Decibel Magazine flexi and multiple tours and festival appearances throughout North America and Europe. As Khemmis continues work on their fourth album and first for Nuclear Blast Records, the band offers up “Doomed Heavy Metal” to close out the first chapter in their ascendent march to the top.

For Khemmis’s ever-expanding fanbase “Doomed Heavy Metal” offers a treasure trove of rare material to temporarily sate the hunger for that highly anticipated new album. Never a band to shy away from a challenge, their cover of the legendary “Rainbow In The Dark” by Ronnie James Dio is a triumphant and energized tribute to the ultimate God of Heavy Metal that in the hands of a lesser band might be anything but. Recorded exclusively for this release the song takes on new life in the signature Khemmis style, making it their own without betraying the ideal of the original.

Recommended if you like: Black Sabbath, Mastodon, Sleep, High On Fire, Pallbearer, Spirit Adrift, Candlemass, Baroness, The Sword, Yob, Conan

Track Listing:

1. Rainbow in the Dark 
2. Empty Throne 
3. A Conversation with Death
4. Bloodletting
5. Three Gates 
6. The Bereaved