THIS IS A ROTTED LIFE PRE-ORDER, THIS AND ANY ITEMS ORDERED WITH IT WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND OCTOBER 13TH, 2026
Virginia’s Night Hag returns from the shadows with Great Dismal Darkness, the band’s first full-length since 2022’s Phantasmal Scourge and the first release as a four piece
Across seven towering slabs of death-doom, Great Dismal Darkness sinks deeper into suffocating atmosphere, glue-thick riffs, cavernous growls, and oozing misery. Lumbering dirges, splattering slow-motion double-kick thunder, and walls of rotten distortion create Night Hag’s heaviest, filthiest, and most oppressive work to date.
Since forming in 2010, the band has steadily refined their rancid vision through the Insemination Rites of the Succubus EP, split LPs with Cryptic Brood and Burial, and Phantasmal Scourge. Great Dismal Darkness pushes that evolution further, embracing a slower, thicker, and more suffocating approach that’s equal parts primitive death metal, fetid doom, and swamp-born sludge
No gimmicks, no polish. Just seven tracks of crawling decomposition, oppressive atmosphere, and unrelenting sonic filth.
Great Dismal Darkness is Night Hag at their most focused, foulest, and most devastating—a monument to decay built one crushing riff at a time.
Cover Art by Form Terror Growth
Logo by David Mikkelsen (Undergang)
Recorded and mixed by Yave Rust Recording and Mixing
Mastered by Bob Greenough at Not for the Weak Records
Lmtd 100 on black/white/silver splatter
Listen: https://rottedlife.bandcamp.com/album/great-dismal-darkness