“Harvester of Sorrow” is one of Metallica’s darkest tracks: from the initial verses “My life suffocates / Planting seeds of hate/ I’ve loved, turned to hate” Hetfield’s Demons evidently come alive, flaunting like ghosts on a catwalk on fire, accompanied by a saturated, black and oppressive sound. Frustration, sorrow, annihilation: everything coagulates in an imaginary of misery and desolation.
Dark Redeemer choose to give a new voice to these demons and more: they exasperate and multiply them, they gather more of them together with their personal ones. They submerge in the original spirit and then elevate it to the umpteenth power.
This death metal version of “Harvester of Sorrow” is violent, atmospheric and sick: if the drumsticks powerfully hit the skins like an army of blacksmiths, the keyboards wrap everything with an obscure malignant aura; the growl devours every hint of light whilst the guitar and bass get sharper and abyssal.
The apocalyptic and anguished lyric video enhances the feeling of destruction and ruin and brings “Harvester of Sorrow” to the extreme edge of obscurity.
The track is already available on all digital stores.
Dark Redeemer were born in Italy, in summer 2018 from the ashes of Aleph, a progressive death metal band with four albums released between 2006 and 2018.
Since then the four deathsters turned the sonic coordinates of the band upside down by abandoning the more technical influences to dedicate themselves to a more raw and ferocious sound: a blend between the telluric impact of Swedish (Grave, Dismember, Entombed) and American death metal (Obituary, Morbid Angel, Immolation). The result is an uncompromising old school sonic assault with a strong identity.
Dark Redeemer leave the listeners breathless, they drag them in a powerful vortex of violence and malignity.
A black wave from the depth, a return to the roots of the “sound of death”.
The discographic debut of Dark Redeemer, “Into the Deep Black”, released on Blasphemous Records in 2021, was distributed internationally by Sleazy Records (USA), Code 7 (Europe), Wormhole Death Japan, Fans and Bands (Mexico), Egea Music (Italy) and on all digital stores worldwide.
After the release of their brutal version of “Harvester of Sorrow”, Dark Redeemer are working on their second album to be released by the end of the year. They promise a new even more obscure and violent chapter directly from the dark.
The line-up is compounded by Dave Battaglia (vocals, guitar), Manuel Togni (drums), Giulio Gasperini (keyboards), and Antonio Ceresoli (bass).
