Gas-huffing existentialist phenomenological self-examination inspired by the flattened aura that regularly getting lit provides is a major cornerstone […]
sludge metal 2018
Mentally scouring the post-Y2K stock of innovative heavy music it is nigh impossible to avoid pointing directly at […]
To zoom out from the tunnel vision of current releases and reflect on the discography of a prolific […]
Two of the heaviest sludge bands to rocket up into Relapse Records‘ crypt as of late offer a […]
Despite how much any unemployed pop culture historian argues for the validity and importance of various niche genre […]
The gift of existentialism isn’t so much the ability to question as a free agent, an autonomous being […]
Austrian shout-a-long sludge metal band Kielkropf come with a handful of heavy doom riffs and a few pages […]
Scatterbrained post-metal conglomeration still resembles a ‘modernity’ and fluid genre-fuck to a fellow like me who more-or-less reached […]
The colliding perspective lines and veiled dissolute countenance of the figure depicted on the cover art for eclectic […]
Crackling like a degraded tape in between giant stoner doom riffs the post-metallic sludge of Sacramento’s CHRCH seems impossibly […]
In doing some extensive research on a sludge band named Fister it only made sense to better familiarize […]
With the impressive drop of their debut album ‘Loss’ in 2014 Danish atmospheric sludge metal band LLNN have […]
Southern New Jersey swamp things Kolossor have gone every which way possible in conjuring variations that build upon […]
Every time I look up a sludge band on Facebook they always seem like such shining, happy people […]
Vancouver, British Columbia based atmo-sludge/doom camp Heron rode in on a wave of post-hardcore informed sludge metal with […]
The long and dark history of psychedelic occult stoner doom sludge mystics Dark Buddha Rising began with some […]
With no great knowledge of Valborg until 2017 I was pulled into the eclectic world of Christian Kolf‘s […]
Nihilism and a curious ear for extreme abnormal psychology case-studies fuel the harsh affect of Abjection Ritual‘s mixture […]
In reaching for a progression beyond the hardcore-fueled sludge metal of their self-titled 2016 demo and 2017 split […]
The psychedelic fractal skies of ‘Metempsychosis’ are nothing more than an Anglerfish-like lure to Nest’s monstrous, hideous sludgescapes. Nest’s […]