Tag: Sludge
The Howling Wind – Into The Cryosphere Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Every few months or so, five or ten killer bands suddenly appear on my radar from different places, all playing roughly parallel styles, and all somewhat new to my ear. …
Village Of Dead Roads – Desolation Will Destroy You Review
originally written by Jim Brandon As pleasantly bleak and calamitous as so much death and black metal aspires to be, give me a good doom or sludge album that makes my skin crawl with those …
Wrack – Graveyard Review
Wrack is the sole vision and performance of vocalist /multi-instrumentalist Tyler Cox, who plays a very un-shoegaze-ish form of modern post/sludge on Graveyard, his debut. To fans of the genre, the album will initially seem …
WhiteBuzz – Book Of Whyte Review
Originally written by Chris Chellis. WhiteBuzz come careening out of the gate with the sludge of EyeHateGod and the enchanting vocal melody of Om on their debut effort, Book of Whyte. An hour-long affair that boasts just five tracks, the first …
Struck By Lightning – Serpents Review
According to the National Lightning Safety Institute, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are one in 280,000. The odds of being struck sometime during an eighty year lifespan? Still one …
Kowloon Walled City – Gambling On The Richter Scale Review
No other label captures the essence of its genre’s sound quite the way Sludge does. It’s as if somebody took life’s anger and frustration and despair and mashed it all up into a great ball …
Eagle Twin – The Unkindness Of Crows Review
originally written by Jim Brandon We’re hit with death metal ‘til it’s rupturing every orifice, slaughtered by new black metal monthly, and trounced by deathcore at every turn. Yet doom seems to invoke a natural …
Eryn Non Dae – Hydra Lernaia Review
originally written by Chris McDonald As the explosions of metalcore and deathcore can attest, the bridge that has for so long separated heavy metal and hardcore has essentially fallen in for good. Any true fan …