(((O))) Tag: Sludge
Cosmic Cardiff: Luminous Bodies, Wyllt, Black ShapeThe Moon, Cardiff, 19.08.2017 Photos by Magda Campagne Please do not use the photos without the photographer’s permission.
Cough, Sinister Haze, Grave LinesElectrowerkz, London, 14.08.2017 Photos by Magda Campagne Please do not use the photos without the photographer’s permission.
Eclectic riffs galore by Lionize, Limb, and Gevaudan, at Camden’s Our Black Heart.
“Pure Humber sludge” – the sound of Battalions! A half hour of well-crafted bounce and groove all held up by a reassuring heaviness that keeps the head nodding throughout.
Ahead of the release their second long player Moonburn and playing the New Blood Stage at this year’s Bloodstock, Nik Prowse posed a few questions to vocalist Phil Wilkinson from Hull heavyweights Battalions about their new music, Bloodstock and what it’s like being in a band from Hull.
Shepherd and Death by Fungi release a cracking split bringing together grungy sludge metal and late 90’s style emo / mathcore into one tasty package that is packed with ‘shiver down the spine’ moments, proving once again that the underground is alive, well and kicking hard.
Don’t get into this thinking it’s all badger brains and lullabies, ‘cause it’s not.
By the end of this album, you’re hooked on the melody and bludgeoning sludge – even if at the beginning of the album you took some convincing. They get you in the end.
Crowbar manage to take it up another couple of levels with an hour long sludge master class.
I would urge anyone, either doom/sludge aficionados to anyone who likes music on the heavier edge to go and see Monolord live, a band who evidently thoroughly enjoy what they are doing, are expert musicians and fine purveyors of deep, filthy, heavy as hell doom and more fuzz than anyone could possibly want.
Recorded earlier this year, ‘Jim’ is the band’s third a fucking mean one to boot. The release is a near 40 minutes of desolate unwavering desolation.
Recorded this year, the Melbourne band’s self-titled LP is the perfect mix of haunting atmospheres, devastating heaviness and melancholic swathes.
Timeworn have taken a step away from their most immediate influences and taken on a far more progressive direction for album number two, creating a collection of intelligent, soaring sludge metal that still references Mastodon a little too often, but is never less than engaging and exciting.
From an intriguing yet disjointed first half to a solid but safe second half, the Birushanah / Monarch split record is a modest release best reserved for the avid fans of both bands.
Comity have continued their reign over forward-thinking and wilfully complex heavy music, blending Converge style aggression with technical riffage that chops and change at a pace comparable to the attention span of a toddler with ADHD, producing an essential but disorienting odyssey to a very dark place.
Space Witch play cosmic doom metal – and embody that concept as well as anyone else has to date. On ‘Arcanum’, their second record, they expand their palette a little, with often intriguing results.
Wovoka | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter “Wovoka’s musical volleys are both panoramically expansive and crushingly claustrophobic“, LA Weekly wrote about these 4 dark souls from the US West Coast. Emerging from a near 2-year slumber since debut album Sar …
Unpredictable malice, driving, insistent riffs and unorthodox harmonies. An enthralling listen from start to finish.
Red Apollo | Facebook | Bandcamp With six years of existence under the belt, Red Apollo undoubtedly belong to the established bands among those who identify themselves with post-metal, sludge, doom and everything in-between. After a successful tour wit …
Yet again, Hornets come at you with an intense, dirty, downright heavy collection of blistering punk rockin’ scuzzy metal. (Head) Cracking stuff.
