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Evil Blues

by HOOFMARK

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    ## If you want me to sign your CD let me know by sending me an email at hoofmarkofficial@gmail.com ##


    Limited Edition CD in 6-panel Digifile carefully designed to evoke HOOFMARK's brand of rash and dreamlike black-heavy metal and blues. Includes a 16-page booklet with lyrics, stories and laments in a sort of concealed making-of to "Evil Blues", all presented with high-quality photography and composition.

    The "Evil Blues" CD was designed by Carina Reis (www.behance.net/carinareis), with photos by Luís Barros (www.instagram.com/luishb).

    Includes unlimited streaming of Evil Blues via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • T-Shirt/Apparel

    HOOFMARK's first t-shirt inspired by the debut album "Evil Blues". The "El Vaquero Ungulado" t-shirt was designed by Filipa Vargas (www.nobanshees.com) based on a photo shoot by Luís Barros (www.instagram.com/luishb). Logo by 黒 K͚U͚R͚ØC͚C͚V͚L͚T͚ 黒 (linktr.ee/kuroccvlt).

    Very soft and light pure white t-shirt with black and blue design. Printed with water-based inks for a natural look and an artwork that truly feels part of the fabric. "El Vaquero Ungulado" portrays the materialization of HOOFMARK's muse sitting in quiet repose -- "Pull up a chair, take a seat, and listen to the thud of hoofbeats!"
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Porch fire 03:22
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about

Primitive in the ways of old black-heavy metal, cautious in the ways of the blues and pretty rash in its own ways. The Evil Blues will make you scream with a big old evil smile!

Limited edition "Evil Blues" CD Digifile now available.

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"Evil Blues" manifests itself through particular brands of black, heavy, doom and blues, sometimes controlled and cautiously, other times at the mercy of impatience for the uncertain future. HOOFMARK's debut album is a new exercise of landscape distortion, twisting them according to its needs and focus of attention: the human being and its relationship with nature.

To its songs belong not only distinctly raw guitars, which pierce through an ever-present bass and dynamic percussions, but also stories of violence and cynicism, end of the world, and the fatalism of inaction.

Keeping its hands dirty and its feet wet is all HOOFMARK can ever hope for. And with the Evil Blues, it’s all it ever will.

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Agradecimento especial ao João Seixas pelo apoio, ao Pedro Almeida (Miasma of Barbarity) pela confiança, ao Ricardo Rodrigues pela persistência, ao Nelson Calvinho pelo metal, à Ana Gomes pela ajuda valiosa, e à Filipa Vargas pela dedicação e afeto. Um abraço sentido a todos os meus amigos e família num período inesquecível para todos.

Este disco é dedicado aos meus sobrinhos e à próxima geração. Que as incertezas e ruturas do presente sejam matéria para construir um futuro mais promissor, tolerante e de reverência à alteridade do nosso mundo. O preto é a cor da fuligem, mas também da terra fecundante e outras fontes de vida. A natureza merece culto; não apenas domesticação. E é preciso saber escutá-la e às suas gentes. Ela habita na árvore e na rocha, na aldeia e na cidade, no nosso fogo e no nosso sangue.

credits

released February 13, 2021

Evil Blues was performed by
El Vaquero Ungulado (Vocals & Guitars)
Towkuhsh Razamod (Bass & Synth)
Andrecadente (Drums)

Produced, engineered and mastered by Towkuhsh Razamod at Rock 'N' Raw, Amadora, Portugal, during the first seasons of the pandemic
Recorded between March 2019 and March 2020 at Buckskin Stallion Studio, Lisboa, and Rock ‘N’ Raw, Amadora, Portugal
All selections composed by El Vaquero Ungulado for HOOFMARK
Design by Carina Reis
Photography by Luís Barros
Mask by Carlos Ferreira
Logo by 黒 K͚U͚R͚ØC͚C͚V͚L͚T͚ 黒

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Reviews:

"(...) we continue to see the weird genre-blurs our Portuguese metalheads throw at the world. It's blues in a pure essence of invoking a total downer, it also ties to the structure of said genre in the most outlier way possible while maintaining its essence." - Gimme Metal via Metal Injection (USA)
metalinjection.net/av/top-tracks-of-the-week/einherjer-regional-justice-center-among-gimme-metals-top-tracks-of-the-week/amp

"Longe de assentar em estruturas fáceis e óbvias é um melting pot bem contruído de estilos, momento verdadeiro de vanguarda e inconformismo. E é bom!" - LOUD! (POR)

"I know I said this when I reviewed the band's first album a couple years ago, but no one sounds like this. No. One. The ferment on this set is inspired, and the feverish playing alternates between frightening and enthralling." - Aiding & Abetting (USA)
www.aidabet.com/2021/021821.html

"Portugal's one man project Hoofmark is back with another creative album that goes far beyond the regular sound and interpretations of genres." - MANIC MOSH Magazine (UK)
manicmoshmagazine.com/metal-14.html

"Pegar em 'Evil Blues', implica um fim de tarde relaxado, uma boa porção de álcool, com a devida qualidade e desfrutar do espírito de jam que se encontra numa 'Best Kept Old', ou similares malhas, em que a música e o espírito falam por si." - Metal Imperium (POR)
www.metalimperium.com/2021/05/hoofmark-evil-blues-review.html

"Hoofmark situa-se num espectro muito singular e combativo. Se não gostas, então não o tentes destruir porque há-de haver quem goste – portanto, passa 'Evil Blues' a essa pessoa que poderá apreciar o álbum e o projecto. Mas se gostas, então desfruta, explora e compreende. É tudo o que pedimos." - Metal Hammer Portugal (POR)
metalhammer.pt/hoofmark-evil-blues/

"Både black metal-vokalen, den talte lyrik, Lanegan- og Hood-vokalerne er indfølte og har et fokus på image. Så hvis man ikke er sej og ikke kan lide seje ting, så er Hoofmark det forkerte band for dig." - Devilution (DNK) devilution.dk/anmeldelser/pladeanmeldelser/210213-hoofmark-evil-blues

"Evil Blues is a warm record. It definitely sounds like it was made in either Portugal or Arizona and not in Norway or Oregon. Which is a weird tone to take black metal in. By drenching it in the sun and putting a lot of drawn-out guitar sections that bring the sound out of the metal sphere, it feels like it evokes a dry desert which keeps a lot of secrets, in addition to sounding mighty psychedelic." - Metal Storm (EST)
www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=16602

"O destaque final vai para todo o artwork e imagem, além das letras interessantes e diferenciadoras que fazem deste disco um caso único dentro do género, ainda mais em Portugal. É ver (e ouvir) para crer." - Caminhos Metálicos (POR) www.caminhosmetalicos.com/hoofmark-evil-blues/

"É difícil tentar definir o que se pode ouvir aqui. O rótulo de black metal não lhe assenta confortavelmente bem, o de folk/country também não. Claro que sempre se pode dizer que é algo experimental, algo que quebra com alguns dos moldes onde supostamente deveria encaixar. 'Evil Blues'." - World of Metal (POR)
worldofmetalmag.com/wom-reviews-the-chant-of-trees-schemer-heer-sow-discord-urku-llanthu-hoofmark-reconvalescent-nathaniel-shannon-the-vanishing-twin-emptiness/

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