The Dark Battalions's - Band of the month

Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Doom Radio / Dark Battalions
Written by: Michael Bond

"When you're ready for an ambient cerebral pounding to your aching cabesa -- not the kind of listening pleasure I would recommend for you who are trying to recover from last night's hangover -- but mood music all the same -- that is if the mood is sci-fi horror -- this could be the band for you. All you doom hounds on your epic quest for whatever it is that's worth questing about -- you have become predictable in the way you cling to your big fat greasy riffs and your penchant for punishing percussion, always jonesing for a fix from that that great lumbering beast that is doom as it trundles ever forward from one ironic fiasco to the next and not giving a good goddamn about any stinking vocals!!!

This band is Doom in the vein of some big behemoth of a doom band that we could compare them to -- closest I can come up with is Khanate meets Neurosis -- kind of experimentally noisy but more coherently anthemic than you might expect.

These guys have been known to hang out at clubs in the Cardiff area of South Wales with the likes of Big Business and The Abominable Iron Sloth and rumor has it they even bring their instruments and amplifiers to these same clubs and play that god-awful racket they are known for making!!!

Zonderhoof have just released their debut EP and they are known for being most generous with the tracks of said EP all over the Internet, and so it is that this very same EP has made its way into the hands of the Dark Battalions Extreme Metal Internet Radio Show, and we will be featuring it during the month of November on each of these great stations ... Solarfall Radio, Open Grave Radio, Doom Radio, Evolnet Radio and Wayto666Radio.

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