Posts Tagged ‘sludge’

Album of the day: Eibon – Entering Darkness

Posted on Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from MetalSucks: Look France, what did we do to deserve this? Was it the Freedom Fries thing? One of the guys behind that isn’t in office anymore, and most of us thought it was pretty dumb. Steve Martin in the Pink Panther reboot? We’re not proud of that, either. The jokes about how much you guys like Jerry Lewis? In our defense, you do like him a lot, and, come on, he sucks. So really, there’s no reason to keep trumping us so thoroughly in metal. It’s just mean at this point.

Already home to Gojira and most likely the year’s best blackened feelings metal album (Alcest’s Écailles de Lune) on top of all the other really incredible bands I’ve mentioned previously from the last few years, you have to go and pull some bullshit like producing sludgy doom-obsessed outre-metallers Eibon, trouncing us once again in a department we had once so excelled in. We’re in the middle of the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression and everyone hates everyone here; the least you can do is let us still have our awesome shoegazing sludgy doom bands. But based on the ridiculous excellence of Eibon’s debut full length, Entering Darkness, it’s apparent that you guys are gonna be dicks about this, too.

On paper, Eibon are the exact kind of band we don’t need: familiar with doom and sludge metal, prone to decidedly non-metal tangents, big on long crescendos. But in execution… good God, is it phenomenal. Eibon get the heavy part down with aplomb; borrowing liberally from sludge, doom, and occasionally black metal (the glowering title track tips its hat to fellow countrymen Merrimack, in particular), the band don’t leave one wanting in terms of crushing riffs.

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Album of the day: Thou – Summit

Posted on Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Stonerrock.com:  Ever prolific Louisiana sludge brigade Thou have unveiled their latest full length, and it’s a corker. I’d imagine the first thing that’s going to garner attention are the blast beats. Layered over some droning slabs of guitar noise and a post-rock inspired arpeggios, they really aren’t ...read more

Terrorizer: José’s band of the week – Lords of Bukkake

Posted on Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Find out why José Carlos Santos over at Terrorizer picked Lords Of Bukkake as band of the week: Pornogrind, right? Or, at the very least, brutal death metal with ladies hacked to bits and covered in, erm, blood on the censored version of the artwork.  Well, wrong.  Lords of Bukkake ...read more

Reunited Buzzov*en Announces U.S. Tour Dates; New Album In The Works

Posted on Friday, August 6th, 2010

Legendary North Carolina-based metal band Buzzov*en has announced U.S. headlining tour dates. The newly reunited unit will tour this fall for the first time in 12 years and is set to prove why it is seen as one of the most influential underground bands of the last two decades. Founding ...read more

Crowbar To Re-release Three Influencial Records This Fall

Posted on Friday, August 6th, 2010

Newly signed to eOne Music, sludge metal legends Crowbar will re-release three influential records, Crowbar, Live +1 and Time heals Nothing on October 5th, 2010. These three records are the band’s core titles and have influenced many of today’s major metal acts including Lamb of God and Hatebreed. With each ...read more

Album of the day: Conan – Horseback Battle Hammer

Posted on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: First off – what a fucking brilliant name. Why no band has been called Conan before, apart from some piss-poor South American rock band of the eighties, is a bit of a mystery. It is the ultimate metal name, and let me tell you ...read more

Weedeater: Recording Of New Album Nears

Posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Sludge bastards Weedeater have announced several new headlining shows throughout the Midwest and Southeastern US this September. Kicking things off in their home state, the band will devastate the crowd at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Hopscotch Festival on September 11th, also with Public Enemy, Tortoise, Kylesa, U.S. Christmas, Harvey Milk and ...read more

Album of the day: Howl – Full Of Hell

Posted on Friday, July 9th, 2010

Praise for Howl‘s Full of Hell from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: What’s not to love about these guys (and gal)? Crushing, riff heavy grooves, sludgey, and Southern sounding (even though they’re from Rhode Island), downtuned, low slung, brutal, but weirdly catchy too, with a bit of a post rock vibe ...read more

Zoroaster: New Album Available For Streaming

Posted on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

The new album by Zoroaster called Matador is now available for streaming, courtesy of ThinkIndie. (Internet Explorer user may need to click this link to listen to Matador) Matador is scheduled for a July 13 North American release via E1 Music.

Eyehategod: Entire Providence Concert Posted Online

Posted on Sunday, July 4th, 2010

AlexIsLegend.com has uploaded video footage of Eyehategod‘s entire June 13, 2010 concert at Club Hell in Providence, Rhode Island. The entire show can be viewed below: Continue reading: BLABBERMOUTH.NET – EYEHATEGOD: Entire Providence Concert Posted Online.

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