Bay Area’s FROM HELL don’t just play metal: they exhume it, stitch it together, and send it screaming back into the night. Their offering, a cover of Mercyful Fate’s “Come To The Sabbath,” is less tribute, more ritual. Released as a standalone single, it’s a nod to the band’s roots and a wink to Aleister Sinn’s past life fronting a King Diamond/MF tribute act. No surprise then: the falsetto creeps in like a cold draft, and the riffs are sharp enough to carve pentagrams in your parquet.
Recorded during the “Rats and Ravens” sessions (2020, Scourge Records), this track sat in the crypt while the pandemic buried their European tour plans, not once, but twice. Now it crawls out, cloaked in vintage menace and played with the precision of seasoned grave robbers. Steve Smyth (Forbidden, ex-Testament) and Stephen Paul Goodwin (ex-Vicious Rumors) bring the fire, while Wes Anderson (ex-Blind Illusion) keeps the cauldron boiling behind the kit.
FROM HELL’s concept is horror through and through: each album a standalone nightmare. Their debut, “Ascent From Hell,” told the tale of a corpse on a soul-hunting mission. This new single doesn’t push the story forward, but it sure keeps the mood deliciously grim.
It’s not reinventing the wheel, but it’s spinning it fast enough to raise sparks. Fans of Mercyful Fate will dig the reverence; fans of FROM HELL will hear the promise of what’s next.
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