![]() ![]() There is definitely some beauty to be found in the unknown. Both are different heads to the same beast.” “We don’t think about each record sequentially. SLUG: Also what made you decide to keep your identities hidden?ĭIS: Well, in a world where everything is a known entity, mainly because of the Internet, some things are best kept hidden. The music that Dragged Into Sunlight has strived to create was a necessity-something with a blatant disregard for the boundaries presented by scenes and politics, something which doesn’t care, has no empathy and acts on its own selfish agenda. SLUG: How did this collective of five artists come to create Dragged into Sunlight, and what made you decide on the music you wanted to create?ĭIS: There are upwards of 10 individuals involved in Dragged Into Sunlight nowadays. While the band just released a collaboration with extreme noise artists Gnaw Their Lounges, titled NV, it’s all about DIS’s artistry, which emphasizes intense live shows. Dragged Into Sunlight-who play their shows with their backs to the crowds pummeling some ugly, grimy and noisy death/black/doom extreme music-have become widely known with just two full-length albums. Lashed To The Grinder & Stoned To Deathīuy CD / Merch Prosthetic Records or watch the video for Buried With Leeches.Fans of Dragged Into Sunlight won’t see much sunlight when the U.K.-based, five-piece band plays at the Metro Bar in Salt Lake City on July 10, well after the sun has gone down over the valley. Prepare to exist in a world of shattered hope.Ġ4. The moment you dare to play this album is like breaking into an unholy chapel and having it’s dark luminance contaminate your sanitized precious reality. It’s far removed from amateur 4-track garage recording kult black metal territory, which, for me, was a benefit. I much prefer a few technical aberrations than the alternative of having the essence siphoned out by overzealous engineering. The production has its subtle flaws, as I can hear moments of clipping, but this album probably wouldn’t sound the same if it had been buffed of all its sharp edges. Maybe the samples and more ambient passages aren’t mind-blowingly creative, but I think Dragged Into Sunlight is more about that certain mixture of ingredients that gels together and not so much about pushing the envelope into brave new worlds. ![]() Hey, if you want a reflection on what’s wrong with the world, you go right to the source right? I feel that it offers variation and it doesn’t detract from the experience. Others have mentioned that the murderer / psycho killer dialogue samples are limp, but they fit well and serve the songs. The shrieked, growled, vomited throat emissions are almost poetic in their writhing. Hate and disgust seeps out into the spaces between the words. Attitude is everything, and Dragged Into Sunlight has certainly got it. There’s just no point in knowing what is being said, because everything that needs to be stated is perfectly conveyed through the mutilated sonic aesthetics in these six tracks. Surprisingly, the lack of understandable lyrics don’t bother me on this release. So extreme! Like a nightmarish fingernail scraping through your brain while having an allergic reaction to Haldol. I can’t believe the traditional four or five piece ‘rock’ lineup still has mileage left in it, but metal’s dead carcass has been infused with diseased battery acid and beaten back to an unholy undead state. Just when you thought every hackneyed cliche had been used and abused to death, here comes this soul-imploding eternal black emptiness. It’s surprisingly fluid and organic, and doesn’t sound stitched together. It’s not really innovative in any one way, other than how seamlessly they meld each attack into the next. Really, really, God damned (literally) impressive work here. The black / death / doom / sludge mixture keeps the knife twisting in your spine, but isn’t so all-over-the-map as to be distracting. Extremely bleak, excessively hateful, and it’s all directed towards one and only one target. A top-tier bludgeoning that deserves all the superlatives and adjective throw-around surrounding it. I’ve heard -very- little else with as much vitriol as this album. But the album title ‘Hatred for Mankind’ is an understatement. There are so many metal reviews out there that mention how ‘brutal’ and ‘sick’ a particular music release is, that it can be hard to take anyone seriously when they make claims like ‘more brutal than brutal’. Channeled misanthropy culminating in the ultimate isolation.
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