Lucifer's Hammer – Hymns To The Moon - Chapter One (Demo 1995)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Dark Tower 08:05
2. The Garden Of Solitude Beyond 05:43
3. The Entrance To Gehenna 03:13
4. Widow's Lament 01:16

Lucifer’s Hammer was formed in Michigan in 1986 and remained active until 2004.
The band was prominent unit in the Midwest underground,

playing numerous regional gigs and routinely featured in the lineup of the Michigan Deathfest.
At the beginning their sound was more thrash/death-oriented,

but as the band evolved, it gravitated toward a darker black/death metal sound.
By the mid 1990s, Lucifer’s Hammer was part of a circle that included such bands as Summon,  

Masochist and Wind Of The Black Mountains, all of which at some point shared members with Lucifer’s Hammer.
Lucifer’s Hammer was among the first American bands to play death metal suffused with the atmospheric darkness

and savage ferocity associated with the then-emerging black metal movement.
Unfortunately they never signed a contract and after the release of five demos (one of them being a live recording)

and two full length albums ("The Mists Of Time" in 1997 and "Ghosts Of Fall" in 2001) they disbanded.

In 2014 Destro Records re-released "The Mists Of Time" on CD

while in 2021 Nuclear War Now! Productions re-released on vinyl the majority of their demos.

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