Gruesome will be releasing its first EP, and second release overall, titled Dimensions of Horror on May 20 via Relapse Records. The EP is shaping up to be damn good thus far, and full of plenty of fantastic horror! Which is good, considering the title.
The band explains the new track "Raped By Darkness" as one that pays homage to Evil Dead, and of course the band's main inspiration – Death.
“‘Raped By Darkness‘ is another tune that has its origins in the ‘Horror’ section of the video rental places that dotted the landscape of the mid-1980s like zits on a teenage metalhead’s face.
When I was nine or ten-years-old, it was a never-ending ordeal to convince someone’s parent or guardian to rent R-rated, or even better, unrated, horror movies for me and my friends to watch. Sometimes I would just browse the aisles and be captivated by the cover art for movies like Street Trash, Future Kill, and Basket Case, which I never actually got to see until much later. Despite, or maybe because of, their limited availability, I lived for gory flicks like The Toxic Avenger, Re-Animator, Hellraiser, and Evil Dead, which is what this song is based around.
In the tradition of great death metal cuts like ‘Dead By Dawn,’ and the oh-so-subtle ‘Evil Dead,’ this is an ode to Sam Raimi‘s horror masterpiece, but ours is lyrically centered around one particular scene – the infamous ‘tree rape’ bit. The music is, of course, directly modeled after our raison d’etre, Death, particularly the Scream Bloody Gore era that this EP is centered around."
So crank up the nostalgia factor and get immersed in some Gruesome!
