(((O))) Tag: Sludge
It’s been a great time here in Copenhagen and though it is hard to find a festival that makes it worth the trip, we for sure hope that more people chose this event next year. The environment, the pricing, the acts and everything is perfectly fine about this festival. A great choice and hopefully the organisation can pull it off again to put it up.
A week after Roadburn and still hungry for that riff, so off to Copenhagen for the Northern Discomfort festival. The fest has its second edition this year at community house Ungdomshuset, which is a place for art and activism with a bunch of simple rules dealing with racism, sexism and all those other things that frankly make you an asshole.
The Ditch And The Delta | Facebook | Bandcamp Battleground Records expands the label’s diverse roster once again, welcoming Salt Lake City-based exploratory sludge/math metal trio, The Ditch And The Delta, and is preparing to issue the band’s Hive …
Obelyskkh | Facebook | Bandcamp Germany’s doom/sludge outfit Obelyskkh presents their fourth LP, The Providence, through Exile On Mainstream Records. The Providence was released on all digital platforms, CD, and 2xLP with three …
The second day of this year’s edition features excellent line ups at each of the four venues in Camden, and indeed it was the first day of the weekend to sell out, which considering the strength of the rest of the bill is some going.
Lodo | Facebook | Bandcamp Lodo (‘mud’ in Spanish) take their name and inspiration from the way of playing post-metal for bands such as Neurosis, Pelican, Cult Of Luna and Moho. As the music of these bands is a sludge-doom at times, or always, com …
Monster Truck, The PicturebooksElectric Ballroom, London, 22.03.2017 Photos by Guido Segers
Post-metal with shoegaze, When Icarus Lives perform a substantial remodelling of their own sound.
With this release, Black Sails for Red Seas have continued with what they started in Wave I but with a more heavy, menacing soundscape, laced with hits of light in between.
Black Peaks, Tigercub, Employed To ServeThe Dome, London, 26.01.2017 Photos by Angelique Le Marchand
Big Business, Whores. and Under The Star and Garter, Manchester, 02.04.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
‘Emperor of Sand’ takes Mastodon’s way with melody to a whole new level. The perfect combination of crunching metal and fine tunes.
Planning for Burial, aka Pennsylvanian artist Thom Wasluck, makes miserabilist doomgaze for drunken shut ins and doomed romantics. On ‘Below the House’ he chronicles a particularly bleak time in his life – and mines a rich vein of melancholy for his most affecting and complete sounding record yet.
Overall ‘Tempest’ is an emotive experience that aims to connect with the listener at a far more visceral level than prior efforts, and for the most part it absolutely hits the mark, creating a true journey, from the quiet build of ‘First Light’, to the squalling, droning sludge of ‘Metanoia’s closing bars.
Oathbreaker, Svalbard, Grave LinesThe Underworld, London, 20-01-2017 Photos by Angelique Le Marchand
Blacksmoker bring the riffs, the big stoner vibes and a veneer of sludge metal on their sophomore full-length, an album that never really fully establishes its own identity and doesn’t quite hit the mark, but demonstrates real potential for future releases and marks them out as ones to watch.
OHHMS an Mammoth Weed Wizard BastardSticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Brighton, 18.02.2017 Photos by Angelique Le Marchand
Tim Porter caught up with Chip King from The Body to find out about the band’s recent US tour with Alcest, the band’s sound and what they have planned for the near future.
The music is dirty and sullen, but with a goal at drawing the listener in to its intoxicating haze of instrumentation.
Lo! | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter Akin to the way a volcano can lie dormant for years before unexpectedly unleashing its mighty wrath on everything within reach, Sydney band Lo! kept a pretty low profile, until their thundero …
