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BLOODY HAMMERS Release Fifth Studio Album ‘The Summoning’
June 28th, 2019

Transylvania County, North Carolina-based gothic heavy psych rock group Bloody Hammers issued fifth full-length studio album The Summoning on June 28th, 2019 through Napalm Records.

The Summoning pays homage to horror movies such as Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) and Now The Screaming Starts (1973).

Vocalist, guitarist and bassist Anders Manga commented: “When I think about my earliest influences, the horror film genre is just as important as musical influences and they’re all fuzed together in my brain from childhood. When I was a kid, there was a show called Shock Theatre that aired late at night on our local WGHP network in the early 80s. They played Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972) and weirdness like that. Around the same time slot, over on channel 61, there was a music video show that played Ozzy, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper and all those artists our satanic panicked local churches and teachers were freaking out about… and forbidding.

“I tried to put myself back in that time when I wrote The Summoning. In my mind, it’s a tribute musically and lyrically to those magical macabre memories. Back when paranoid adults thought kids were brainwashed and likely worshiping Satan in the woods… good times!”

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Let Sleeping Corpses Lie’
02. ‘Now The Screaming Starts’
03. ‘The Summoning’
04. ‘Fire In The Dark’
05. ‘The Beast Is Coming Out’
06. ‘Welcome To Darkness’
07. ‘Tales That Witness Madness’
08. ‘Condemned, The Prisoner’
09. ‘From Beyond The Grave’
10. ‘Unbreakable’

Bloody Hammers’ line-up is as follows:

Anders Manga (vocals, guitars, and bass)
Devallia (keyboards and organs)

Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘Now The Screaming Starts’, ‘From Beyond The Grave’ and ‘Let Sleeping Corpses Lie’. All three clips can be viewed below.

Fourth studio record Lovely Sort Of Death was released in August 2016 via Napalm.