Tag Sludge
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 →
LLNN are a band whose growth in popularity has been equally as explosive as their signature sound. Encompassing all the best bits of hardcore, post rock and industrial, these innovative Danes won over crowds at Roadburn three years ago, while… Continue Reading →
Some bold claims I read in the info sheet for the album at hand. Bold, even for info sheets. Lux, the fourth full-length by In the Company of Serpents is “one of the most impressive Doom/Sludge Metal albums ever recorded”… Continue Reading →
Something nasty is stirring in the West. Bristolians Moon Reaper have been mixing up the medicine to create a murky blend of dark sludge and progginess and the E.P. Descent is the fetid result. Dirty, heavy riffs from the get go, these 5 tracks are… Continue Reading →
Ah another day when your very ‘eavy, very ‘umble scribe turns round to find everyone else has walked forward while I’ve walked sideways. Hmm. This six tracker from relatively new but productive Berlin band Praise The Plague is sent PR… Continue Reading →
So, you love sludge, and also love cult sci-fi and horror, so what do you do? Well, if you’re natives of Wellington, the answer would be to form a band and crank out an album that hits with all the… Continue Reading →
If you don’t know whether to play in a hardcore, sludge or black metal style, the solution is simple: you play all three. That’s what Lithuanian band Erdve do. This is their second album release. The subject matter, which amounts… Continue Reading →
Arrgh. Genuinely hate being in this position, but it is what it is. Mannveira are Icelandic, a country and a music scene I have huge love and respect for. Frankly I want to live there but, hey, never will as… Continue Reading →
A band that need no introduction, Amenra are without a doubt one of the most explosive and prolific bands in modern metal. The excitement surrounding each new release is momentous and latest opus ‘De Doorn’ (the thorn) is no exception…. Continue Reading →
Some twenty years into their existence French heavyweights Year of No Light are having a damn busy summer. A new album in the shape of Consolamentum and a career spanning box set of their previous 5 full-lengthers – quite an achievement after what… Continue Reading →