Lovely Sort Of Death

I was on my usual trek through the rural countryside of North Carolina looking for odds and ends when I had a hankering for something to eat. I pulled into the Amore Grill and ordered a BLT. It was pretty tasty. Anyways I got to talking to the waitress and she was telling me about this band called Bloody Hammers. She apparently knows them and said they were good. Now anybody that knows me knows that a name like Bloody Hammers caused my beard hairs to curl in interest. She said they were a husband and wife goth group. I grew up on some Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, The Damned, Type O Negative, and some later on Tiamat. Well as soon as I got back I looked these couple up and found this here album. Gave it a listen on YouTube and I admit I was smitten with the music. I proceeded to buy this fun little album. Great hooks. Great riffs. If you love the Goth/Doom genre you shall enjoy this. So to that waitress there in Transylvania County I say "Mucho Grassyass".

This album starts off eerie and very atmospheric, choosing to move at a slower pace to the climactic heaviness. Then it all of sudden releases the listener into the stratosphere. Floating away as the album ends. Excellent work by Anders and Devalia here. Keeping up the standard they set and have kept up since the first self titled record. Check out their new EP, it's like an extension of this. A little bit heavier!

I really like this album and will play it often. Four stars is my honest assessment, which means I'm glad I bought it. This is "artisanal" music in the sense that it sounds home-made, not produced in some studio with lots of guests, but that enhances rather than detracts from the vibe. Call it goth or doom or whatever but I think it's really good rock 'n' roll.

I'm not very familiar with this band, but the album is not bad. Its definitely got a 80s goth club feel to it. Now many people are saying this is a doom metal album, but to me this is straight up goth rock. If you like goth rock and/or like some nice ambient music, check this album out.

Recently found out about this couple and their music. It's eerie, ghastly feel puts me in the mood for autumn and Halloween.

4th album from North Carolina band who deliver darkly soaring neo-Goth mystic metal rock of the Old Gods; songs to lift the spirit and crush the soul in the orgasmic beauty of indulgent drama through the demon-blessed vibrations of guitar, synthesizers and baritone shiver-vocals. This is music with an inspiringly huge, unabashedly over-the-top old-school Goth rock splendor and heavy metal power. The band’s warm, inviting production style and their ability to mix melodic accessibility with a menacing rumble of supernal metallic strength gives the album an unusually resonate appeal. It references a number of potent bands: Sisters Of Mercy, King Dude, Type O Negative, Beastmaker, Grave Babies, March Violets, Fields of the Nephilim, New Zero God, Uncle Acid. “Lovely Sort Of Death” encapsulates all that was, and is, good about the heavy and transformative spirit of Gothic rock. Recommended.

Absolutely awesome. This album is really doing it for me heading into fall. Nice and creepy atmosphere. Songs keep growing on me more and more. Really unique group that I have a hard time nailing down to one heavy rock subgenre. There's elements of doom, classic heavy metal and darkwave that really go together nicely. It's maybe something like... Gary Numan and H.P. Lovecraft did drugs over at Black Sabbath's house. That still doesn't really describe it but something like that.

Here is my unbiased review as seen on Metalbite.com:After giving the Bloody Hammers Lovely Sort of Death a few spins in my CD player, I’m still at a loss as to where to begin with this album. If you've never heard of Bloody Hammers before, I’ll try to give you a sense of the type of band they are within this review. Bloody Hammers is a two person American duo band from Transylvania County, North Carolina with Devallia (Keyboards/Synthesizer) and Anders Manga (Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Synthesizer) who founded the band back in 2012. Their genre or genres cover quite a variety of music including Gothic Rock, Doom Metal, and Psychedelic Rock, which, in my opinion, is part of the problem with this album as it doesn’t quite have a concrete identity.When you first look at the album without even listening to it and consider the cover art, lyrics, and pictures within the booklet as a whole, you think to yourself, "I'm in for a brutal treat!" Sadly, though, Lovely Sort of Death, falls flat and comes off about as brutal as Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. The cover art features a old picture of seven naked women with one of them in the center wearing a goat head as the center piece. All the other women are staring at her in admiration. The booklet inside features various pictures of the band members and other pictures of the naked women. The booklet also features lyrics for all the songs as well.I will say, the lyrics for each song on, Lovely Sort of Death, are actually really good; however, they way they are delivered with the music waters them down a bit and doesn't really do the album justice, which is a shame because this album has so much potential. I think Bloody Hammers is trying too hard to be more of a side show rather than a serious band because the music really sounds more 80's-esque to me and more of a novelty rather than being a band I can take seriously. If I had to pick one song on, Lovely Sort of Death, that is even remotely good that I could connect to emotionally, it would be the very first track, 'Bloodletting on the Kiss,' which is probably the strongest track on the album while all the other songs sound generic and forgettable.Honestly, Lovely Sort of Death, and Bloody Hammers as a band is really disappointing. Most of the ingredients are there for them to be a superb band; however, the delivery and music lacks depth and really doesn't move me in any way or another. This is a band that I will not actively seek out to listen to, but their music is palatable enough to listen to if one happens to come across it on the radio or happens by chance to be at one of their live shows. With all this being said, Lovely Sort of Death, still deserves respect as both Devallia and Anders Manga put hard work and effort into the album. While it's not a brutal album as I think it should be, it's still listenable even if it happens to be forgettable, which is why my rating is a little above the middle. This is an album you may listen to only once or twice and put the CD on your shelf and go on to the next one.Rating: 6 out of 10

On this album, they have gone goth rock a lot more, and less heavy rock. Not as good as previous albums.

Je suis très satisfait de ma commande.

『Under Satan's Sun』に続く4作目のアルバムです。前作が若干ゴスっぽい雰囲気のある渋いハードロックだったのに対し今作ははっきり、ゴス／ドゥーム的な方向性を打ち出しています。この手のジャンルにしてはメロディックで聞きやすいので色々な人におすすめできるかと所々TYPE O NEGATIVEを思い出すところなくもなかったりしますただやはり個人的には前作のほうが好みだったかな・・・