Description
Following up on last year’s critically acclaimed LP, The Red Sect, North Carolina’s ALL HELL return with their Prosthetic Records debut album proper, The Grave Alchemist. Featuring 12 driving, raucous blackened thrash songs, the album also shows a maturity and growth for these Asheville natives who previously had their punk rock roots show through. Many of the tracks have a doomier, heavier sound, though the band still lets their violent thrash loose all throughout the record. The combining of genres is what ALL HELL has always done best and this time they’ve greatly stepped it up, incorporating more elements into their sound while maintaining solid, fluid songs. The band did however stick to a familiar formula when the time came to record The Grave Alchemist. Produced once again by Kris Hilbert (The Body) and mixed and mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust), the album will see a worldwide release on April 14th. The album is a narrative-driven horror concept album that weaves a tale of alchemy, necromancy and vampirism over the span of three centuries. It is a potent blend of violence, mysticism, psychology, and the occult, distilled into an aural elixir of Blood and Gold.