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I wanted to start Music of the Blind Dead as an alternative to posting all the videos and musical musings I had on my Facebook or Twitter pages. One thing I will try and keep to a minimum is genre labeling, I feel that arguing over if something is Death/Doom or Sludge is defeating the purpose of listening to music. Music is a visceral experience that you should feel in the pit of your stomach. If it does that who cares if it's Black Metal/Ska or Shoegaze/DnB?

That said I wanted to start out with a band who embodies Music of the Blind Dead so thoroughly, Hooded Menace. The deciding factor was really simple, all of their lyrics are taken from the movie series that this blog is named after. Add to that the fact they are punishing to listen to and my first post has to go out to HOODED MENACE.



This is taken from their 2010 album "Never Cross The Dead" and is a perfect example of what they do. Slower heavily distorted guitar riffs as the singer growls like it's 1981 and he's inventing death metal. This album gets played at least every other day at my house, usually early in the morning to get the day started.



I'm going to keep the first post short and only one band to start out with, in the future I'm going to include multiple bands that are similar in some way and see how that goes.

Thanks for reading Music of the Blind Dead.