Tag Sludge
It’s five years since I gave “Deceases” a 9 out of 10 review on this very site. In Covid Years that is no time at all. So here are the crushing Finns back once again to drop the heavy on the world. In case you don’t know… Continue Reading →
Self-proclaimed Witch Doom duo Blacklab hail from Osaka and mix up stoner, psyche and Doom with elements of 90’s grunge to tickle eardrums on this, their third full length. I say tickle, but if truth be told, pummel is the… Continue Reading →
As with many of the bands that lay themselves bare on the operating table of criticism, many are completely unknown to me before I wield my blunted, dirty, rusty medical accoutrements in a botched operation of critical prose, that is… Continue Reading →
As the band name and album title might suggest, here we’re heading into the realms of industrial, post-metal sludge and all that surrounds it. Although not a name previously known to me, Lament Cityscape have been around for a while,… Continue Reading →
For no less than 32 years now Kirk Windstein has been leading Crowbar into battle, armed with a sonic arsenal of weaponised riffs that can crush concrete into dust. As such, when their impending twelfth album ‘Zero and Below’ arrived… Continue Reading →
I gotta say I am shocked that Born of Obsidian is Sheffield stalwarts Kurokuma’s first full-length release. It feels like they have been in the front ranks of the UK underground for aeons. Their 2016 E.P. Advorsus was a slab… Continue Reading →
A typhoon of black metal, sludge, post metal and hardcore, France’s Celeste are unwavering in the enormity of their sound. Having already laid the foundations for experimentation with the ambitious mixture of genres they’ve managed to hybrid together, they’ve spent… Continue Reading →
It’s often with a fair degree of trepidation that I approach a body of music that is prefaced within the preassembled PR guff as transcending several musical genres. It serves to do a few things I guess, firstly it seeks… Continue Reading →
Hamburg based No God Only Teeth are one of those genre defying outfits that are extremely hard to classify, their extreme music skirts the fringes of a raft of styles without really concentrating on one. It is absolutely fair to… Continue Reading →
If you care to rewind back to a time before Covid stretched its shit caked claws into society’s chest and ripped out all that is good, clean and holy, to a sunny August afternoon in 2019 when I was fortunate… Continue Reading →
First off, this album has arrived in an old school cardboard promo sleeve. Yessssss! Secondly there is no printing on the disc itself so it takes a couple of attempts to put it in the player the right way. OK Boomer! Like a fucking USB… Continue Reading →
Bleak, minimalist, sparse, cold and vast, just some of the words that come to mind when describing Oakland’s Kowloon Walled City who return with this, their first album in over six years. I must admit, straight out of the gate,… Continue Reading →