US progressive blackened doom metal act Wizard Tattoo released new full-length album »When Gods Had Hands«; out now on CD, cassette and digital!

Indianapolis, Indiana based progressive blackened doom metal act Wizard Tattoo return with new full-length album, »When Gods Had Hands«, which was just released on October 2nd, 2026 via Garage Fire Recordings.

Listen to »When Gods Had Hands« on all major streaming services!

Tracklist:
01. Part I: The Fall & Part II: Damnation
02. Part III: Forgiveness & Part IV: Sanctuary
03. Part V: Retribution & Part VI: Pact With Evil
04. Part VII: Armageddon & Part IIX: The Faul

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

Get »When Gods Had Hands« on CD, Cassette and digital:
https://wizardtattoo.bandcamp.com/album/when-gods-had-hands

All music written and performed by Bram the Bard.
Vocals and spoken word by Fausto Aurelius.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Garage Fire Recordings.
Artwork hand drawn by Bram the Bard.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well