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artist: Wizard Tattoo
title: When Gods Had Hands
year: 2026
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: Independent
language: English
rel. date: 2026-10-02
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:45:02
size: 103.2 MiB / 4 tracks
rip date: 2026-10-02
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/loa12v50tx134
tracklist:
01. Part I The Fall & Part II Damnation 9:24
02. Part III Forgiveness & Part IV Sanctuary 11:32
03. Part V Retribution & Part VI Pact With Evil 12:10
04. Part VII Armageddon & Part IIX The Fault 11:56
release notes:
"Wizard Tattoo creates genre-defying music that blends doom, stoner rock,
jazz, black metal and grunge. With their music, Wizard Tattoo captivates
with haunting melodies, heavy riffs, and introspective lyrics inspired by
comics, horror, and fantasy. Their DIY approach showcases their
commitment, balancing heaviness and melody for an unforgettable
experience."
Every myth about forbidden knowledge is really a myth about technology.
When Gods Had Hands drags that idea from the Book of Enoch to the edge of
the Singularity.
The new album from Indianapolis one man band Wizard Tattoo is a
progressive blackened doom concept record in eight movements. The
Watchers fall from the sky and hand mankind the forbidden gifts, fire,
metallurgy and the blade, and those gifts leave a stain. Thousands of
years later humanity picks up the same tools to build a new god out of
silicon and light, chasing the reach that damned the angels before them.
The Fall keeps happening. We just keep changing what we call the sky.
The album began with Fausto Aurelius, who wrote its concept, narrative
and philosophy. He runs through the record on vocals and spoken word, his
voice chopped and processed into something between prophet and machine,
and the essay that anchors it is his as well. Bram the Bard wrote and
played everything else, recording, mixing, mastering and drawing the art
by hand. The music moves between crushing doom, blackened fury and long
progressive stretches, with vintage film samples threaded through and a
flash of Middle Eastern texture on one movement. Beneath the riffs sits
real weight, the Nephilim myth, Ricoeur's stain, Ellul's Technique and
Kurzweil's Singularity, all circling one question: what kind of new gods
are we building, and what will they cost us?
"This started as an attempt to make something different. Not black metal,
not doom, not progressive, but something else entirely. The concept sent
me back into dark industrial and black metal, and into religion and
philosophy, trying to understand what's happening to the culture of
humanity. I'm proud of this contribution to the myth of Wizard Tattoo."
Fausto Aurelius · Concept, Vocals, Spoken Word, Essay
"After Living Just for Dying I wanted a real departure, to lean all the
way into the blackened side for a whole album, the way I first did on
'Tomorrow Never Dies.' The influences run wide, classical, industrial,
90s alternative, and the whole thing took a year to conceptualize and
come together. It's the furthest I've pushed Wizard Tattoo."
Bram the Bard · Music, Recording & Art