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Hooded Priest

About Me

Hooded Priest was founded on June 6th, 2006 as a doomed collaboration pact between members of Dutch and Belgian metal-outfits Witchsmeller Pursuivant, Zwartketterij, Grimm and Wapenspraak & Drinkgelag. These musicians had been in contact with eachother since the mid-nineties through the honourable and highly esteemed Committee of Metalheads with an Unbelievably Low Sense of Humour (abbreviation in Dutch: CMOLH) and were now seeking to create the ultimate bizarre fusion between screaming blackened hardrock-guitars and doomed rock ‘n roll. The band started out as a classic heavy metal four-piece, yet soon recruited double bass-player Otto Von Zelst to add to the dynamics of the compositions with a deep darkened bass-pulse and psychotic percussion-picks. During these first years of existance the band has created a considerable number of songs and were ready to hit the stage in 2008, Dutch Doom Day(s) was one of the highlights were they played among some big names of the Doom scene without having released anything themselves, not even a demo. Hooded Priest were indeed ready to record their first demo-tape after J-Maze joined , but on the verge of 2009 Hal Stormer (drums) quitted the band to focus more on his other band Grimm. Hooded Priest then released a limited rehearsal-cdemo 'Call For The Hearse' as a farewell tribute to Hal Stromer. Cornelius Backus (from dutch black-metal outfit Inverted Cross) was asked to join the band to put some 'Dynamic Dynamite' into the songs before they will get recorded, something which finally turns into reality this summer. The album will be released by Emanes Metal Records. Subsequently, once again many a stage will sink under the weight of its doom in the course of 2009!


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My Interests

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Member Since: 20/05/2007
Band Website: [email protected]
Band Members:



Luther 'Finlay' Veldmark:
Vocals

Niklas 'Miroslav' Szàtan:
Lead and Rhythm Guitars

Otto Von Zelst:
Double bass

Joe 'J-Maze' Mazurewicz:
Rhythm Guitar

Cornelius Backus:
Drums

Influences:

Sounds Like:
'Mrs. Satan' LIVE at LBP

'Alibi' LIVE at Kompas Sint-Niklaas
(support for Pagan Altar !)

'8 'O Clock Witch' LIVE at Kompas Sint-Niklaas

Hooded Priest
'Mrs. Satan' and 'Alibi' LIVE at De Metaelen Oek
Record Label: Emanes Metal Records
expect an album in autumn
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hooded Priest signed to Emanes Metal Records

Hooded Priest are proud to announce that they have come to an agreement with Emanes Metal Records to release their first official effort, which will be recorded this summer, on both CD and vinyl! For ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:01:00 GMT

Entering the studio

And at last, as promised earlier on this blog, Hooded Priest will enter the studio in the course of July and August 2009. The recordings will be engineered by Nerclath A. (Urzamoth, Coldborn, W&D, ex-...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 05:21:00 GMT

Pagan Altar gig

We are very honoured and very pleased that the support gig for Pagan Altar was well received ! Thanks Levi, Davy and everybody of the crew at OJC Kompas Sint-Niklaas.Special thanks to Levi for the pic...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 10:25:00 GMT

'Call For The Hearse' now out internationally...

'Call For The Hearse' is finally out now for the masses, it's our first fysical proof of existence besides the sweat that soaked the people that came to our gigs !!Call For The Hearse is  a 4-track re...
Posted by on Sat, 23 May 2009 05:41:00 GMT

Hooded Priest support act for PAGAN ALTAR ! this sathurday !

In for a mystic night of doom ? The head to the city of Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. Pagan Altar will play there at the local youthclub OJC Kompas, Driekoningenstraat 48, 9700 Sint-Niklaas (less then 1/2 ho...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 16:24:00 GMT

FULL MOON NIGHT SPECTACLE OF DOOM - October Tour

Hooded Priest are invited to tour with Finnish doombands Fall Of The Idols and Spiritus Mortis in october. The latter with brandnew singer Sami Hynninen (a.k.a. Albert Witchfinder from Reverend Bizarr...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:19:00 GMT

Recording plans scheduled for 2009

Finally Hooded Priest is planning to record the long awaited début in the middle of 2009 !The band will go low profile on live gigs the first part of this year to focus on the preparation of the recor...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:18:00 GMT

New video footage Hooded Priest (Cornelius' début)

Video footage of Cornelius first gig with Hooded Priest.Mrs. Satan and Alibi.Directed by ' De Swaan' at 'De Metaelen Oek'...http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x88hw8_hooded-priest _music 
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:18:00 GMT

Welcome Cornelius !

The past months all things were like omens that Cornelius Backus (from Inverted Cross) would soon join the band. And so he did. Hal Stormer already had given some of our recordings to Cornelius (it mu...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Hal Stormer quits Hooded Priest

Hal Stormer, one of the founding members of the band recently left Hooded Priest to focus more on his band Grimm (he's the lead singer in that band, writes the main part of the songs and plays guitars...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:00 GMT