Tag Sludge
Nope don’t get all excited those of you who like pantomime metal and bangs and explosions on stage, this is not the British NWOBHM Hell. It is a band like Amarok who they share this 2 track split album with… Continue Reading →
Have you ever been hit by a brick? They call this DIY Hardcore Punk. There’s certainly a natural quality about this album by Serpent Eater from Germany. Anger and an almost unending sense of struggle are the medium for getting… Continue Reading →
This one off (supposedly) album features some high calibre musicians of the North Western United States. Mike Scheidt of Yob and Tad Doyle provide vocals but this is the brain child of Aaron Edge ex Himsa. Aaron was diagnosed with Multiple… Continue Reading →
A Wocket in your Pocket. A Yeps on your Steps . These both may seem alarming enough. But a Noothgrush on your toothgrush??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hell no. Good old Dr Seuss . Not only did he give us some of the most… Continue Reading →
Corrections House is a consortium of members from sludge and post-metal bands Minsk, Eyehategod and Neurosis amongst others. Drum Programming, sound distortions and a mix of urban and industrial atmospheres can be found on this heavy work, which can be… Continue Reading →
When Denmark’s Helhorse dropped Oh Death on us it was a mighty impressive and mature piece of hardcore driven rock n metal and catchy as Hel(l) to boot. So given the chance to fire a few questions their way, Ave… Continue Reading →
Some big words from Relapse on the latest release from this US-based duo here, Wolvserpent’s compositions apparently ‘gracefully wend their way through the valleys of death, drone, black metal, doom and chamber music and arrive triumphantly on foreign shores… to… Continue Reading →
Broozer is a self-described ‘tough technical modern sludge’ act from Melbourne. Formed back in 2010, it seems that they have spent the last three years practising and perfecting the seven songs that would make up this, their debut release. What… Continue Reading →
US trio Primitive Man take no prisoners with their onslaught of skull-crushingly heavy blackened sludge-doom. The guitars are downtuned and drenched in feedback, whilst the drums are crude and sparse, often breaking into tribal-sounding patterns. The excellent vocals consist of… Continue Reading →
Storming out of the growing catalogue of kick arse bands signed to the ever more impressive Relapse label is this latest EP from Black Tusk, a power trio very much in the vein of High On Fire hailing from Savannah,… Continue Reading →
Eibon’s last album ‘Entering Darkness’ really lived up to its name. The French band delivered a stark, sludgy, doom-etched morass of war hewn grimness that was monochromatic right down to its chilling artwork. The first thing I noticed about the… Continue Reading →
Armed for Apocalypse are a band that are met with staggering praise for reasons that are simply unfathomable. Often lumped into the category of sludge, the only connection they have with the genre is loose at best. The vocals are… Continue Reading →