An outlandish cross-pollination of psychedelic synth quirks, verdant folk melodies, acid-churning sludge, and a sundry of timbres balmy, bitter, and beatific.
Category: Sludge Metal
#149 | EP Review | Chat Pile – Remove Your Skin Please
An album review podcast of the second EP, Remove Your Skin Please, from the sludgy noise rock quartet, Chat Pile.
#135 | Album Review | Unfurl – The Waking Void
A pestilent brute of aural decimation.
#132 | Album Review | Norma Jean – All Hail
Powerful melody and spacious soundscapes stacked on sludgy hardcore riffing.
#110 | Album Reviews | Misþyrming, Ossuary, Lord Dying, Firelink
Our latest album review variety episode where we dissect some frigid black metal, murky death-doom, progressive sludge, and Dark Souls-inspired black metal.
#109 | Album Review | GRIZZLOR – COOLNESS FACTOR 6
Grab your makeshift wrenches and welding torches to keep this disheveled crew’s craft afloat as we strike murderous warp speed.
#108 | Album Review | POUND – ••
POUND’s style is a caustic amalgam of doom, grindcore, d-beat, djent, mathcore, sludge, and a smattering of other genre textures. While this blend of sounds on the surface may sound like a trainwreck, the duo effortlessly weaves the core essence of each genre into a rather novel tone.
#100 | Interview | Crowfeeder, Constant Disappointment Records
Adam speaks in-depth about his sludgy, blues-imbued hardcore project named Crowfeeder. He then expands upon this endeavor to illuminate the genesis of his chaos-teeming record label, Constant Disappointment Records.
Album Review | Ruff Majik | Tårn
Tårn delivers on so many fronts: it’s groovy, it’s heavy, and it’s catchy, a winning combo. Though Ruff Majik has never been as heavy as to be labeled a doom metal act, with each album they grow darker and more brooding and their sound here is a far cry from the stoner rock sounds heard on their debut, The Bear.
Album Review | LATITUDES | Part Island
Where some music reflects on loss, Part Island embodies it and causes nostalgia to well up in your throat
#93 | Album Review | Inter Arma – Sulphur English
Sulphur English is utterly sullen and crushing, yet simultaneously intoxicating, triumphant, and revitalizing. It latches onto an ancient strand of DNA residing in each of us. And it strives to ignite a smoldering flame to illuminate an ancient path we have strayed.
From Corners Unknown Compilation, Vol. II Now Available
Featuring 45 artists across the genres of death, black, and sludge metal, noise, crust, ritual ambient, and neofolk.