We’re here to set the mood for Black Friday with some dank, depressive doom from Swedish trio Hexjakt. Hexjakt means “witch hunt” in Swedish and these bearded badasses are providing the soundtrack to a good ol’ fashioned witch burning on their rumbling, lumbering full-length debut, Blessing of the Damned. The eight crushing tracks all clock in well over five minutes and are bleak doomscapes of dread and darkness. These dudes—Hampus Henningsson (guitar/vocals), Toni Åkerman (bass/vocals), Dan Nordin (drums)—know two tempos, slow and slower, and they bulldoze along with a single-minded intensity.
Blessing of the Damned was recorded at Kingstreet Studio in August 2025 and mixed and mastered by Joona Hassinen at Studio Underjord. It is set for release on vinyl and digitally on December 1 via Majestic Mountain Records in collaboration with Burning Skull Records. Place your preorder here (vinyl) and here (digital).
The band describes its debut full-length like this:
“With Blessing of the Damned we present a collection of the darkest and most conceptually charged songs we’ve created so far. The title itself captures the album’s core tension: the pull between damnation and redemption, light and darkness. These songs unfold across a landscape of crushing, slow-paced riffs, murky atmospheres, and lyrics that evoke ritual ecstasy, defiance, and resignation. This is a journey beyond traditional boundaries, a space where the marginalized and the forsaken are given a voice, and perhaps even a kind of blessing in their downfall.”
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