Tag Blackened Sludge
Amongst the many things that metal (of all sorts of flavours) is really, really good at, one of the most useful is its ability to literally and metaphorically block out every single other thing on the planet for however long… Continue Reading →
Who doesn’t love a good surprise? I know I do. You, the debut album by new entity Johnny The Boy certainly provides one. Two central figures of Crippled Black Phoenix, Justin Greaves and Belinda Kordic, joined by Matthew Crawford on… Continue Reading →
Nasty blackened filth here from the “corpse” that is Poland’s Trup. I was rather expecting this though having encountered the Warsaw based trio on previous EP Szmula and lockdown induced album Ke. Having come out of that to relative freedom… Continue Reading →
We’re told to expect “8 tracks of primitive and soily sounds”, with the added threat that this will annihilate our nervous system. “Quiétude Hostile” is the Parisian blackened sludge band’s second album release. The apocalyptic nature of the dark heaviness… Continue Reading →
Get up. Get on up. Stay on the scene. “Which scene?” I hear you cry. Well gentle reader that would be the filthy, riff filled sludgecore scene – cos that is what these fellas from Lille are offering. Starting life… Continue Reading →
In the year since Inter Arma released their second album ‘Sky Burial’, the band have toured seemingly non-stop, with three out of the five members releasing and touring an album for black metal outfit, Bastard Sapling, so the mind boggles… Continue Reading →
2011’s ‘The Obsidian Plains’ is a helluva album to have to follow, however, considering the superstar line up of the Minneapolis/Chicago trio that is Wolvhammer – Jeff Wilson (ex-Krieg and Nachtmystium), Adam Clemans (ex-Iron Thrones and Veil of Maya) and… Continue Reading →