Tag: Sludge
Saviours – Death’s Procession Review
Saviours is one of those sneaky bands that you might not be sure if you’re supposed to like or not. Of course, if the music speaks to you, then let it speak, but this Californian …
Elitist – Fear In A Handful Of Dust Review
Elitist is a four-piece band from Portland, Oregon, but for all intents and purposes, you may as well just think of the band members as four spiky signposts pointing the quickest road to Hell. This …
Dark Castle – Surrender To All Life Beyond Form Review
I’ll be the first to admit: the first time I listened to Dark Castle’s enigmatic second album Surrender To All Life Beyond Form, it left me almost completely cold. In fact, it seemed like such …
Morne – Asylum Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay When I first heard about the Boston-based crust sludge group Morne, I was hesitant to give them a chance. Having attended Berklee College of Music for the past few years, I’m …
Drainland – …And So Our Troubles Began Review
Originally written by Dimitris Chrys. Metallic (metalized?) hardcore has been a staple within the metal community for quite some time now. Just as well, too, since it has produced some memorable music. Of course time …
Across Tundras – Sage Review
Some bands take years of false starts, stylistic affectations, and happy accidents before finding a sound that, once stumbled across, seems to have been what they were circling around all along. Across Tundras is not …
Rabbits – Lower Forms Review
Portland’s Rabbits inhabits (zing!) a scuzzy middle ground between sludge metal and noise rock. Lower Forms is never quite distorted enough nor packed with actual riffs to claim the sludge tag, but it’s quite a …
Starve – Wasteland Review
I’ll be honest: I had never heard of the Dutch band Starve before giving Wasteland, their debut album, a spin. Based on the cover art, I was half-hoping for some post-Axis Of Perdition bleak industrial …