Posts Tagged ‘Doommantia’

Album of the day: Wizard’s Beard – Four Tired Undertakers

Posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: When I first heard the Pure Filth release by UK’s Wizard’s Beard I knew this band was going to be something out of the ordinary, a band to take over the UK sludge-metal throne from other past greats such as Iron Monkey and thankfully they haven’t let me down. Four Tired Undertakers is a nasty, toxic dose of afflicting, agonizing, cruel, excruciating doomed sludge that should have ALL fans of the riff drooling with delight. On first spin, this album seems less varied than Pure Filth but that just makes it just that bit more intense and unforgiving.

The doom riff quota in the band has been increased ever so slighty with this album being closer to a kind of early Electric Wizard styled lumbering stoner doom album. There is still the slime and filthy, swampy sludge attack but it is in smaller doses on this CD. There are six tracks stretching the album out to 53 minutes but the way the songs flow one to the next makes it feel like this is one long, torture-filled epic track.

In the past I compared them with Grief, Buzzoven, Eyehategod, Iron Monkey, Negative Reaction et cetera but now I would like to add one more band to that list – Sleep as the sabbathian element is here in larger doses than in the past with Wizard’s Beard.

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Album of the day: Behold! The Monolith – Defender, Redeemist

Posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: Set to be released in a couple of weeks from now is the new album from Behold! The Monolith titled Defender, Redeemist. It will be the band’s third release and its best thus far and certainly their most aggressive. Combining elements of stoner, sludge, doom and ...read more

Album of the day: Electric Moon – The Doomsday Machine

Posted on Friday, January 6th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: Sula Bassana’s Electric Moon is back with a yet another release, I say another because I have lost count with the amount of albums available from this band but I believe this is number four, not counting all the CDR live recordings that are also available. ...read more

Album of the day: Iron Man – Generation Void (Re-release)

Posted on Monday, November 21st, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: Generation Void was/is Iron Man’s third album that was originally was released in 1999 on Brainticket Records. Shadow Kingdom have already re-released the first two albums by this classic doom band from Maryland and now have finally done the same with Generation Void. Along with the ...read more

Album of the day: Elder – Dead Roots Stirring

Posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: I must confess I am lost for words to describe this masterpiece from Elder. Some bands match expectations with new releases, some disappoint but Elder have exceeded all possible expectations with Dead Roots Stirring. I can’t honestly say this is ‘album of the year’ as it ...read more

Album of the day: Devil – Time to Repent …

Posted on Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: If anything, Devil is the underdog’s favourite – has been for some time in the online community. See, back when I was a casual observer (read “just newly getting into doom and whatnot”) I witnessed the online music community bolstering Devil’s six-track demo as sort of ...read more

Album of the day: Sungrazer – Mirador

Posted on Friday, July 29th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: After releasing their impressive self titled début a year ago, Sungrazer return with Mirador, an album packed full of fuzzed out riffs, cosmic bass lines and soothing vocals. If your unaware of Sungrazer, imagine Kyuss mixed with Hawkwind via Jimi Hendrix and your only just scratching ...read more

Album of the day: Serpentcult – Raised By Wolves

Posted on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: Belgian sludge-doomsters Serpentcult have had more bad luck than most bands with constant line-up changes and all but now they are back, this time as a stripped-down three-piece consisting of Frédéric Caure, Steven Van Cauwenbergh and Frederik ‘Cozy’ Cosemans. The worst thing about these changes is ...read more

Album of the day: Noctum – The Fiddler (EP)

Posted on Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: Remember Witchcraft? They currently live in the ‘where are they now file’ to use a quote from the Spinal Tap movie but seriously that band has become old-news and one of the reasons is bands like Noctum have come on the scene. People compare Noctum to ...read more

Album of the day: Wreck of the Hesperus – Light Rotting Out

Posted on Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Doommantia: I’ve been a fan of Ireland’s Wreck of the Hesperus‘ brand of funeral dirge since I first heard their 2006 opus The Sunken Threshold and while their output since has been a little disappointing, I am glad to say they are back, sicker but more sophisticated ...read more