sludge metal Tag Archive

PREMIERE: watch sludge grrrl trio Rosy Finch’s new video “Lava”.

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You know that feeling of fulfillment, when you get introduced to a band who not only breaks a genre rules but also has you instantly hooked on their music? This band is ROSY...

YOUR HIGHNESS “Your Highness” (Hoogheid Records)

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Belgian five piece YOUR HIGHNESS (finally) return with their third album, soberly titled ‘Your Highness’ — probably to remind those who thought they split that they...

Bow to battle doom lords CONAN, as they’re taking over our lands once again.

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“CONAN are as heavy as interplanetary thunder amplified through the roaring black hole anus of Azathoth.” Quite frankly, we’ve never read a more accurate promo...

INTER ARMA “Sulphur English” (Relapse Records)

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Attempting the challenge of reviewing any new INTER ARMA album these days feels like throwing oneself off the outer ridge of some deep underground gorge into a bottomless, dark,...

LOW FLYING HAWKS “Anxious Ghosts” (Magnetic Eye Records)

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Let’s be honest, we don’t know much about LOW FLYING HAWKS excepted their music and two initials: AAL and EHA. And two faces. Nothing more. Yet, two EPs ago, the duo...

10 silly questions to blackened punk badasses MANTAR.

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After they completely destroyed Hellfest for the second time, we had the chance to sit down with Germany’s finest blackened punk firestarters and absolute tour beasts...

Getting underground with German post-doom giants BLCKWVS.

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Back in February, it was brought to my attention that a German heavy band called BLCKWVS had a new album out, and I’ve been unable to stop listening to ‘0160’...

VIDEO PREMIERE: get swallowed into a sludge hole with BLCKWVS “0161 Bl”.

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Lay your ears on the hugest-sounding sludge band Germany has ever produced. Those faraway heirs of Neurosis and Sleep display such a cold, life-annihilating sound that you will...

CONAN ” Existential Void Guardian” (Napalm Records 2018)

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Throughout twelve years of career, Jon Davies and CONAN rarely let the audience breathe, relentlessly releasing full-lengths, EPs, live and split records. It’s...

THC PREMIERE: Earth Ship new video “Whiplash”

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Forget about thrash and bullet belts: we like it filthy and muddy here. German sludge mongers EARTH SHIP are back with a killer new video for “Whiplash”,...

MANTAR “The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze” (Nuclear Blast 2018)

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MANTAR: Turkish for “mushroom”. Well, it doesn’t sound too heavy. A strange monicker for the prolific and rather intriguing German duo, who released three albums...

DOPETHRONE “Transcanadian Anger” (Totem Cat Records 2018)

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Cackling right back at us again through the haze, like some kind of crazed witch astride a hot-rod fueled with liquid depravity, DOPETHRONE return with their fifth full length....

‘Till The Livin’ End: DESERTFEST LONDON 2018 Review – Day 1

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DESERTFEST LONDON, much like the music it showcases, is a formula. Every year you pack the same bag, hop on the same train or flight, see all those friendly and familiar faces...

DESERT STORM “Sentinels” (APF Records 2018)

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Not many bands can claim, having first gotten together in their formative years as mates at school, that more than ten years later they’ll still be powering away with five...