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Rome, Italy (1999 – present)

Hailing from the city of Rome, Italy, Hour of Penance is a 5 piece brutal death metal band, in the vein of most of the American metal Gods such as Nile, Hate Eternal, Immolation and heaps of other bands that play death metal at the speed of light!

Formed back in 1999 Hour of Penance started as a black-death cover band. The sound made by all those incredible bands from Florida, was what H.O.P. was trying to emulate. The band began to write songs, combining the sound of their different influences from Europe and USA.

In October 2000, H.O.P. release their first demo, which was recorded in only two days at the Outer Sound Studios (by Giuseppe Orlando of Novembre). The mini-CD is 20 minutes long, and includes the first song H.O.P. ever written, that gave the name to the band. It immediately made H.O.P. well known in Rome (a few times later also in Italy, after some positive reviews by ‘zines and webzines), the band had some shows in the city, playing with other metal bands.

H.O.P. enter Outer Sound Studios again in September, 2001 to record a split 7” (still waiting to be released for Warlord Rec.) with Cadaveric Crematorium (Brescia, Italy). Their side includes a new track plus a cover to paying homage to the death metal-gods Deicide: 5.19 minutes of blasting sonic fury! As a oddness, the recording session ended on Sept 11th, just before the terrorist Attack on the united states.

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Wretchedspirit wrote:
yesterday afternoon

My favourite brutal death metal band, by far. Shit's ace.

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missael666 wrote:
Friday afternoon

i cant wait for the paradogma!

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ATKaleo wrote:
Friday morning

I don't see the problem with Paradogma sounding like Behemoth. Behemoth are awesome. It doesn't even sound that much like Behemoth anyway.

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Sojk wrote:
Thursday evening

This is some of the best death metal i've heard. Can't wait for new album

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Blekman wrote:
Thursday morning

Well that particular track does sound an awful lot like one off Evangelion. But I'm not going to speculate and say the entire album is going to be just like it.

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Winterbeast wrote:
last week

Awesome Brutal destroying!!

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Mella999 wrote:
last week

For the entire post Guilio check it here: http://www.smnnews.com/board/showpost.php?p=3443209&postcount=178

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Mella999 wrote:
last week

Some words of Guilio of Hour of Penance in http://www.smnnews.com: Well , although i know you guys will change idea on this Behemoth -comparison as soon as we will post another track.. i guess it's time to tell what i think on that.[...] ....i don't really see the point of how my band could be so "highly influenced" by them. I've also read on other forums that "Paradogma" sounds like Evangelion sometimes.. well that's really funny , because when Evangelion still had to be released we were already recording the new album ( in august 2009 ) and EVERYTHING was already written by may 2009. That's just my two cents on this , i don't want to change your opinion or whatsoever :) i don't really care that much - i personally think that there are other bands out there really more "derivative" then us. wish we had the budget Behemoth had to record the album..

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DeadSodomizer wrote:
last week

just Evangelion way, but still mighty Hour Of Penance !!!!

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DeadSodomizer wrote:
last week

Paradogma - rejected track from Evangelion session :D but kick ass stuff.

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hex_fm wrote:
last month

Paradogma DESTROYS!!!

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br00t4l1ty93 wrote:
last month

I am easily 10 times more excited for this new album after hearing that song. It's pretty damn awesome.

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Metarotica wrote:
last month

If the rest of the album ends up like that song, I'll get it and start listening to this band.

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Mella999 wrote:
last month

I agree with G-man, the track sounds some Behemoth-ish style, but I think it was kinda intentional that sound. They stablished that the album will be more dark that TVC, the song sounds like TVC with a darker atmosphere and more varied than songs in TVC. Of Course, there are some Behemoth-esque riffs but that don´t means that HoP is not a Behemoth Clone.

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Toutatis_ wrote:
last month

@G-Man_ : I 100% agree with you. At first listen, Paradogma immediately reminded me of Behemoth, and it's great. As they said on their myspace : "Why we've chosen this track? Because we think that it describes best the new and darker mood behind the new album. This will obviously doens't means that the new album will sounds just like this track.."Paradogma" is the most varied album we did so far , each track will have his own personality still being coherent to the overall sound of the new album. We've added so many elements to our music that this track..it's just a little preview."

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G-Man_ wrote:
last month

Awesome new track. Hope the rest doesn't sound as Behemoth-ish though

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ATKaleo wrote:
last month

New song is amazing. Cannot wait for the album. They better come to Australia to support it.

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DKRafi wrote:
last month

Killer new track. One of the most important releases I'm looking forward to in 2010.

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Mella999 wrote:
last month

New song= Epic Win!!

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returnfromexile wrote:
last month

holy fuck the new song is pure ace!

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