8.4
Contact: jakewordenmusic@gmail.com
Web: jakewordenmusic.com
Seeking: Agent, Label
Style: Orchestral Doom Metal
First of all, it’s unusual to find an artist from the more extreme end of the metal scale who goes by his actual name. On his website, we see the words “Jake Worden” in a scary metal font, and we’re here for it. The music is superb; grandiose and overblown in all of the right ways, Worden’s super-deep voice has a Pete Steele (Type O Negative) croak, lending a gothic-metal edge to the proceedings that recalls Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, as well as Type O. A song like “Born Into Black” is dark, operatic, intensely heavy and a tone of fun.
