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Hexer – A Black Flame in Cosmic Void (Worth Your Ear Blackened Sludge Metal)
Another end of a week, another loss of countless promos tossed into the bin because they were horrible. I like to review two to three submissions per week, but they have to pass the test to even warrant my attention. Art first, sound second. In that order. I had a ton of great covers, […]
death doom \ doom sludge \ Form Terror Growth \ Fred Grabosky \ raw death metal \ Rotted Life Records \ sludge metal \ United States \ Virginia \ Virginia Beach
Night Hag – Great Dismal Darkness (Uliginous Death Sludge Doom)
I was really frikken pissed this week bros, swear to God. The number of promos I went through was astounding. I lost goddamn count. From the overly theatrical to the deathly average, to, even worse, the pretentious pseudo-terror punk that you know can’t back up its talk… All of it lacking, all of it […]
Australia \ David Kukoľ \ death doom \ death sludge \ deathdoom \ doom metal \ Lord Serus \ Night Terrors Records \ sludge metal
Reekmind – Glints from the Crematorium (Effluvial Death Sludge)
Ah how nice it feels to finally review these guys. Australia’s Reekmind sent a promo my way for their last one, Mired in the Reek of Grief, but I passed for reasons I still regret. Generally I judge on art first, and though the cover was completely dismal (in the best way), it had […]
blackened sludge \ experimental metal \ experimental sludge \ James Joyce \ sludge metal \ Ulysses
Agenbite Misery – Remorse of Conscience (Modernist Blackened Sludge)
You know, if I were to ask you what’s an author or particular novel of said author that you’ve found referenced in metal too much, you’re 200% going to say H.P. Lovecraft or use the term “Lovecraftian” cause you probably can’t name any of his novels (that’s because he mostly did short stories, duh). […]
doom metal \ MA \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ sludge doom \ sludge metal \ South Korea
Gawthrop – Kuboa (Wretched Sludge Doom)
Honestly I was not a fan of this at first. South Korea’s Gawthrop dilutes industrial death and noise into a stark, super-pressurized form of sludge doom that’s so absolutely wretched it will likely remind you of the drudgery that is your life. The compressed sound held me back, at first, until I really listened […]
Chicago \ doom punk \ Illinois \ Prosthetic Records \ Rosario Scimeca \ sludge metal \ sludge punk \ United States
Motherless – Do You Feel Safe? (Traumatic Doom Punk)
Been craving something with punk attitude recently, and thankfully this one came in the promo set some weeks ago. I’ve been through probably 15 times since then. Chicago’s Motherless has a penchant for answering their own questions. The immediate answer to Do You Feel Safe? is a rather quick “no,” taking the paranoia of […]
California \ Crypt of the Wizard \ Hayden Hall \ Headsplit Records \ Memento Mori \ Santa Cruz \ Sick Slice \ sludge death \ sludge metal
Dipygus – S/T (Devonian Beast Sludge Death)
This is one of the few bands that came in the promos in the past year that really nails their themes and aesthetic to a degree that deserves attention alone. I’m not sure entirely how to define what you’re about to get out of this, either, but it’s a mixture of center of the […]
acid metal \ Ethan Lee McCarthy \ noise metal \ Prosthetic Records \ sludge metal \ United States \ Vermont \ Winooski
Body Void – Atrocity Machine (Physically Revolting Acid Metal)
This is like political, crusted, body horror sludge or something, or let’s just say acid metal. That’s the best I could come up with today, and thankfully I hit upon this in the emails because it came in a bit late. Got a few days late to scrunch it in there so let’s do […]
Geneva \ Henry Fuseli \ Hummus Records \ Johann Heinrich Füssli \ post-hardcore \ post-hardcore sludge \ post-sludgecore \ sludge metal \ Sludgelord Records \ Switzerland
Rorcal – Silence (18th Century Post-Sludgecore Artistry)
Had some really bad promos this month. I almost settled a few times, almost did it, I swear to God I almost did. But I will not! I…WILL…NOT! Glad I abstained, because the new one here from Switzerland’s Rorcal is exactly what I was waiting for. No more compromising! I can’t believe I got […]
André Trindade \ CVSPE \ funeral doom \ funeral sludge \ Lower Silesia \ Poland \ sludge metal \ Transcending Obscurity Records \ Wrocław
71TONMAN – Of End Times (Absolute Funeral Sludge)
In spite of having one of the absolute worst band names I’ve ever heard of (seriously, come on guys wtf), 71TONMAN absolutely destroy, even though they bring it slow. Of End Times is my first exposure to their work, and, combining the drag of funeral doom combined with the edgier push of sludge, they […]
