Hail Darkness was a female fronted occult rock trio from South Carolina, USA, whose sound can be described as the bastard daughter of doom and psychedelia.

Founding member Joshua (bass) grew up in Phoenix where the first songs were recorded and produced around mid 2020, which resulted in the birth of Hail Darkness… along with main composer Jez on guitar and Emmet, also the band’s designer, on drums.

Hail Darkness moved to Jez’s home turf of South Carolina in the early days of the pandemic, setting up the home studio to begin an extensive three year recording session recording up to 4 hours of material.

Initially the goal was to recreate the vintage sound of their idols: T-Rex, Jefferson Airplane, Pentagram, Shocking Blue, Focus, Jes Franco soundtracks, Black Sabbath, Lucifer Rising, Mountain, Captain Beyond and many others… and mix with the sounds of their more modern favourites like Cathedral and Electric Wizard.
In the studio Hail darkness is accompanied by a host of friend multi-instrumentalists also referred to as the Hail Darkness Coven, who help out with various instruments to create the expansive exotic psychedelic sound of Hail Darkness.

After the release of 5 singles in digital format, the debut album Death Divine was self released on Hail Darkness' own label Vatican Records on August 15th 2024. The album contains 10 songs showing their musically diverse side, incorporating aspects of occult 70’s rock, psychedelia, doom and folk to present the listener magical retro dark cosmic journey.

Jez’s lyrics deal mostly with tongue and cheek occult, inspired by the old occult movies, with some serious winks to light and dark occult works and some personal insights and doodles.

Now the band is an AI project!
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