Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles

by Various Artists

Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles cover art

Collects impossibly obscure, private-press hard rock and heavy psych from 1970s America. The bands featured heavily leaned into the aesthetics of Tolkien fantasy, occultism, and Dungeons & Dragons, delivering proto-metal riffs and apocalyptic lyricism from deep within basements and high school gymnasiums. The compilation beautifully archives the nerdy, doom-laden infancy of American heavy metal.

Genres

  • Hard Rock
  • Heavy Psych
  • Occult Rock

Tracklist

  1. Twelve O’Clock Satanial
  2. Warlord
  3. King of the Golden Hall
  4. Sealed in a Grave
  5. Sorcerer
  6. Slave of Fear
  7. Seance
  8. Tasmania
  9. Black Death
  10. Song of Sauron
  11. Spectre
  12. Wizzard King
  13. Dark Days
  14. Black Wizard
  15. Sweet Child
  16. Cry For The Newborn