This is the latest EP from UK metal band Cursed Sun.
Cursed Sun combine thrash metal with Southern sludge, a bit of melodic death metal, and some NWOAHM. As we’ll see, there’s more to this band than just this though, and in many ways Cursed Sun channel some quite old-school aspects in their sound. Continue reading “Cursed Sun – The Amygdala (Review)”
Ex People are a UK sludge/stoner metal band and this is their debut album.
This mixes bits of doom, sludge, and stoner metal together in one big melting pot. The result? Songs that are memorable and catchy. Continue reading “Ex People – Bird (Review)”
Sapien are a stoner/sludge metal band from the UK and this is their latest EP, although at 45 minutes in length, this is essentially an album.
I love how heavy this band are. Oh yes. They have a very beefy Continue reading “Sapien – Laika, Come Home (Review)”
Cloud Rat are a grindcore band from the US and Moloch are a sludge metal band from the UK.
Always inventive, passionate and interesting, Cloud Rat start us off with seven songs, lasting just over 18 minutes. Continue reading “Cloud Rat/Moloch – Split (Review)”
This is the second album from this Canadian doom/sludge metal band.
Well, this is very good. Let’s make that clear from the start.
Providing a Continue reading “Longhouse – II: Vanishing (Review)”
Viscera/// are an Italian experimental post-metal band and this is their third album.
The tag post-metal can mean almost anything at this stage in the game, and on 3: Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals, Viscera/// show that they can pull off almost any style you want to name under its protective aegis.
In simple terms, I Continue reading “Viscera/// – 3: Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals (Review)”
Buckshot Facelift are a grindcore band from the US and this is their fourth album.
Here we have over 40 minutes of well-written deathgrind. The band take the brief, energetic bursts of punk and grindcore, and entwine them with the staying power of death metal, making for an album that exists on both worlds. Continue reading “Buckshot Facelift – Ulcer Island (Review)”
Warcrab are a death/sludge band from the UK and this is their second album.
There aren’t too many bands that mix death and sludge metal together, but those that do tend to be pretty notable. The Dead and Tides of Sulfur are two that spring instantly to mind. I can now add Warcrab to this short list too. Continue reading “Warcrab – Scars of Aeons (Review)”
This is the second album from stoner/sludge band Attalla.
Sometimes you just get a craving for some rocking, riff-focused stoner/sludge metal, and for times like that the new Attalla album Glacial Rule is quite the tonic. Continue reading “Attalla – Glacial Rule (Review)”
This is the second album form French sludge metallers Fange.
I enjoyed the group’s debut EP Poisse, so it’s good to catch up with them once more for their second album.
This is pitch-black sludge ugliness, with some noise tendencies. Think Primitive Man, Full of Hell and Continue reading “Fange – Pourrissoir (Review)”
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