HOD: New Music Posted Online

February 6, 2009

San Antonio, Texas-based extreme metal band HOD has posted a new song, "Victims", from its full-length debut, "Serpent", at this location.

"Serpent" will be released on March 17 via Ibex Moon Records.

Commented guitarist Lord Necron, "We are proud to unleash one of our new songs for the public to preview. Put on your spikes, chug your beer and prepare to headbang and thrash your brains out!"

In a world where metal has become too safe and guys run around the pit in girly shirts and eyeliner, HOD has set out to bring back the menace. The membership is a veritable who's who of Texas underground metal. Guitarists Bjorn Haga (ex-NECROVORE) and Carl "Lord Necron" Snyder (ex-THORNSPAWN),vocalist Beer Reebs (PILLCRUSHER, RANCID VAT),bassist Derrick Rivers (ex-GG ALLIN),and drummer Dennis Sanders (ex-EXULCERATE) form the unholy alliance. This ain't no fashion show.

An EP, appropriately titled "Cry and Piss Yourself", was released on digital extreme metal label Metal Hit in 2008, serving as a stern warning to faux metal wannabes, mall crawlers, and trendy parasites everywhere. But the world had seen nothing yet, as the band's signing to Ibex Moon Records soon led to "Serpent", HOD's monstrous full-length debut.

Generally speaking, most will recognize a blackened death metal sound that is as threatening as it is vicious. However, the members of HOD prefer a too often forgotten label called "fucking metal." Beer Reebs spews his twisted tales with an iniquitous rasp joined by the screaming licks and jagged riffs of guitarists Lord Necron and Haga, while the rhythm section of drummer Dennis Sanders and bassist Derrick Rivers gallops and slams with frightening intensity. You have been warned.

Regarding the band's moniker and any surrounding confusion, Lord Necro adds: "As far as any confusion with the band name HOD, it is not an acronym. We do not spell it H.O.D. We spell it HOD. It is the English version of the Norse god Hodur. He is the blind god of darkness and winter. He was put to death by the gods for unintentionally killing Baldur. We have now taken the myth further by suggesting Hod is now a vengeful god for the fate that bestowed on him. He sits in hell plotting and conducting his revenge....The blind god seeks vengeance. We are but his voice..."

"Serpent" final track listing:

01. Victims
02. Ritual of Vengeance
03. God of Darkness and Winter
04. Nine Days
05. Demoralizer
06. Harbinger of Death
07. The Serpent of the Nightmare Empire

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/hodtheband.

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