Posts Tagged ‘sludge’

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: Lurk – Lurk

Posted on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Praise for Lurk‘s S/T from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: This is the debut release from these Finnish heavies, and is a crushing slab of gloriously abject doomsludge infused with plenty of old school slo-mo death metal crush, the label mentions bands like Coffins, Autopsy, Winter and Celtic Frost, and we’re ...read more

Eyehategod: New Live Footage Posted

Posted on Monday, January 30th, 2012

Eyehategod performing Blank live at Sonar in Baltimore, Maryland on January 21, 2012 as part of Sonar’s 30th anniversary celebration. Watch the clip below.

Album of the day: Tort – Tort

Posted on Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Praise for Tort‘s S/T from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: One of three new releases from Jerusalem based Total Rust label, who specialize in the slow and heavy, the sludgey and dirgey, so it makes sense that these Spaniards would find a home there, even more so when you consider that ...read more

Album of the day: Monarch – Omens

Posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Lovingly pinched from Lurker: Witchcraft, in all of its manifestations, has a strong appeal for visual and music artists given its implicit mysticism and strong lore, evoking those primal, vague memories of forests, torched wood, pale sand and shadowy creatures of the night. Man alone against Nature, attempting to explain ...read more

Album of the day: Jucifer – Nadir (Reissue)

Posted on Friday, January 20th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: Whether or not the liner notes that accompany Nadir are just another case of self-mythologising from the nomadic Jucifer front-woman Gazelle Amber Valentine, they paint a charming picture of a young band, destitute of anything but the pleasure of playing music among the junkies ...read more

Monarch Announce Album Details; Teaser Audio/Video Clip Posted

Posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012

French drone / sludge collective Monarch this week confirm the details of their recently completed sixth album, Omens – the band’s first release for Maryland-based At A Loss Recordings — now confirmed for public consumption on February 28th. A thirty-four minute down-tempo / down-tuned ethereal funeral dirge comprised of three ...read more

Mudfest 2012, January 20 – 21, Roermond (NL)

Posted on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

This weekend, the first edition of Mudfest will take place at De Azijnfabriek in Roermond, Holland. The emphasis will be on psychedelica and trippy stoner rock the first night (Friday, January 20) and on sludge, noise, doom and postrock the second (Saturday, January 21). The line-up for Mudfest 2012 includes ...read more

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

Roadburn Festival 2012: Hardrock Hideout With Herder! Wednesday, 11 April at the Cul de Sac in Tilburg, Holland

Posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Herder, hailing from Holland, has been confirmed for the second installment of Roadburn’s Hardrock Hideout on Wednesday, April 11th at the Cul de Sac in Tilburg, Holland. Doors open at 8.pm and admission is FREE! Herder‘s mission: to release low filthy sludge in a revelation of deep rumbling decibelquakes in ...read more