(((O))) Tag: Sludge
Concise & Sinister is yet another reason why Spider Kitten are rightfully revered and has to be the band’s most accomplished and well executed material yet with the variety and delivery of the bands music here demonstrating how great a band they are.
With a name as subtle as Dopethrone, it is reasonable to know what you’re in store for: Some excellent stoner metal with, in this case, excellent track titles.
Great split from two distinctive bands from the extreme underground on opposite sides of the world.
This is the new soundtrack to your bad times, it is heavy, dark and dripping with passion.
Demetra Sine Die’s third full-length album marks a further development from A Quiet Land of Fear, moving deeper into psychedelic, post fueled, sludge driven hallucinations. Including blackened/death overtures and krautrock elements amongst many ot …
I come to see Wren, and Wren are magnificent. I get two top class supports in Sapien and Haar. And, to top it all, I get to see the fabulous Death Engine, my new favourite French shouty harcore/noise band.
Sander van den Driesche caught up with Gwyn Strang and Sean Bilovecky, the duo behind heavy witch rock band Frayle to find out more about the band and their recent signing to Lay Bare Recordings.
Body Void | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter Coming off their debut release Ruins, Body Void returned to Earhammer Studios and has submitted almost an hour of painful sludge and wretched doom. With 2018’s I Live Inside A Burning H …
Their name has often seemed odd to me because their music deals not in our physicality but in mental anguish and emotional torment. The unceasing existential horror of life. The Body conjure something truly apocalyptic and heart sick where lesser lights indulge in scary devil pantomime, somehow achieving a greater resonance and sincerity despite sometimes almost comedic levels of bleakness.
If it’s one lesson that time in this business has taught us is the importance of “team”. Our approach has always been to ensure that the whole (band, label, studio) is greater than the sum of its parts.
Hailing from the hinterlands of South Dakota, Green Altar deliver up an excellent slab of sludge with their second album ‘Heavy Side of the River’.
Orphanage Named Earth | Facebook | Bandcamp Orphanage Named Earth was formed in 2015 as a four-piece and recorded a 5 song demo, which they self released in February 2016 and distributed among friends and allies. At that time, the band coined their mus …
On it’s debut album Ewig.Endlich. weave a rich tapestry of multiple sub-genres with beauty, brutality and above all a focused diversity which creates a massively impressive debut release.
Boss Keloid’s third album is an evolution of the band’s sounds; still thunderously heavy and muscular, but with considerable depth and melody. Well worth the time needed to appreciate this album.
BODIES ON EVEREST hail from Liverpool and Manchester and have spent the last few years playing intense live shows across the UK. The two distorted basses plunge the depths of ultra-low frequencies while the vocals lead the listener through the crushing …
Vile Creature made some noise for their second album simply by existing, daring to play cruise-liner heavy doom whilst identifying as queer. ‘Cast of Static and Smoke’, a post-apocalyptic concept album based on a self-penned short story, proves they’ve much more to offer than upsetting all the right people.
If you like stoner and psych and plan on still being alive in May then why the hell wouldn’t you go?
The self-described music collective Une Misère are from Iceland and they play an aggressive, intense style of hardcore music. They will play the upcoming Roadburn Festival twice, which made Sander van den Driesche curious to find out more about this up-and-coming band.
Absolute filth, disgusting, dripping with grease, slowly melting your face during the process of listening to this, evolving your face into a wrinkly, grimacing mass by the end of it.
‘Corpse Fortress’ is an absolute triumph for Ilsa. It’s required listening in 2018 for anybody who claims to like sludge and doom. You’re not going to find too many better examples of it this year.
