Some musicians are better at not fitting in, finding other musicians who share a similar mindset is not only part of the challenge but also part of the reward. Possibly – Dragged Into Sunlight has grown steadily into a home for artists who seek to create relentlessly without the boundaries of pleasing third parties or fitting in. You have an ever expanding roster of members of contributors/members, why is this? Might you refer to yourselves as a collective as opposed to a band? We caught up with one of the Dragged’ cabal to pry at the ideologies, creative processes, and abstraction behind the collective’s noise. ![]() The group, filling their ranks with a plethora of collaborators, occultists, and extreme metal alumni are one of the few daring to innovate – be it through their public obfuscation, dimly lit live theatrics, the monolithic audial torture of their output, or the tireless innovation running through their depraved walls of noise. As the UK extreme metal scene has faded into a tired parody of itself, the collective has led the way for a new generation of extremity, pushing the boundaries of the origins and conclusions of their vicious noise in an age in which genre is a fading concept. In the decade since their formation, Dragged Into Sunlight have become the leading proposition in UK extreme metal today. Constantly switching between these and other styles, it’s a compelling and brutal performance.This piece appears in its full form in Issue One Redux, available hereĪn entity unknown, an anonymous proposition, a collective, existing only to pummel one’s ears with vicious walls of noise – not since the heady days of the Norwegian inner circle has a death cult of such malevolence existed. The vocalist uses his voice like an instrument in itself, at times he crackles and hacks demonically like dry wood being snapped and bricks being bashed together, other times it’s a deep, teeth rattling growl like the earth splitting open and collapsing in on itself. Everything is tight as a drum, honed to perfection like a weapon designed solely to destroy with maximum casualties. “ The sheer level of musicianship and creativity displayed is mind boggling too. You can keep your poser corpse painted black metal for as long as you want this is where extremity is really at.” – STEREOBOARD “ One of the finest metal releases of the year, and provides further evidence of Dragged into Sunlight’s position as key standard bearers for what is truly ‘extreme’. It is unequivocally one of the highlights of this or any other year.” – THRASH HITS “ Widowmaker defines intensity in heavy music. Widowmaker is certainly an experience, as well as an album, and it’s one that drags you through the deepest, darkest recesses of humanity, and keep you there well and truly after it’s over.” – GHOST CULT Few bands can adequately purvey the sense of dread, despair and doom that Dragged Into Sunlight do, and after sitting through the album you’ll most likely wonder how the band members can create music that evil. “ For an album that started with an uncharacteristically melodic instrumental, Widowmaker soon proved to be one hell of a heavy hitting album. It sounds genuinely dangerous… it probably is genuinely dangerous, and you just don’t get enough of that in metal anymore.” – QUIETUS Real, threatening black metal, like it used to be. And there’s a distinct black metal edge here too, in the anguished vocals. country meanders and bone dry and brittle, almost haunting, Nick Cave/Warren Ellis-ish atmospherics, to crushing, Neurosis-grazing levels of relentless yet textured and flowing punishment to collapsing walls of static-drenched noise. Here they have crafted such a consuming and permeating piece of work that veers from Earth like alt. “ It’s rare almost to the point of myth that you get a band and a piece of music like Dragged Into Sunlight and Widowmaker something that you truly feel you’ve been waiting almost your entire life to hear, something that is so genuinely mysterious and righteous yet utterly, purposefully, repellent and totally lacking in pretension. ![]() It’s a long way down, and you’ll enjoy every second of the fall.” – ROCK A ROLLA “ Part II and Part III lunge for the throat: 25 of the heaviest, darkest minutes anyone will produce this year…Yes it’s vicious and it’s ugly just like Hatred For Mankind was, but it’s also slow and drugged out and mercilessly pounding – it is, in short, Dragged into Sunlight’s take on the most horrid doom.
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