Tag: Sludge
Salome – Terminal Review
Originally written by Jon Eardley To say Profound Lore Records has had an enormous year in terms of the quality of metal music they’ve helped get out to the underground masses is an absolute understatement. …
Dukatalon – Saved By Fear Review
Israel’s Dukatalon is the latest entrant into the increasingly crowded field of vaguely sludgy stoner doom that this particular writer absolutely refuses to refer to as having anything to do with facial hair. Still, the …
The Ocean – Anthropocentric Review
The Ocean is back with its follow up to this year’s Heliocentric, an album that may have surprised the lot of you due to its emphasis on the more orchestral side of the band as …
Acid Bath – Paegan Terrorism Tactics (Reissue) Review
Pages have been written about the Nola scene throughout the years: how its sludgy misanthropy captures the gritty essence of its hometown in filth-encrusted fashion; how its drug-addled violence and blues-tinted roots sum up the …
Unearthly Trance – V Review
Originally written by Doug Moore. Sometimes it’s good when things go badly. Unearthly Trance has been plugging away for ten years. This Brooklyn doom outfit has gigged incessantly and put out four full-length albums, along with …
Fistula – Goat Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Serial killers are such a wonderful thing to hear about bright and early on the morning news. Everything is pretty much uphill for the rest of your day after that, and …
Early Graves – Goner Review
San Francisco’s Early Graves blends into their crusty, sludgy hybrid-metal some noticeable dashes of grindcore, death metal and metalcore—the good kind, not the Hot Topic kind. Goner is as equally rooted in crust punk as …
Harvey Milk – A Small Turn Of Human Kindness Review
Originally written by Doug Moore. Generally speaking, self-awareness and metal don’t go terribly well together. Too much critical distance from one’s own work can squelch intensity and expose band members as the self-involved douches they …