sludge

Lo! Monstrorum Historia (Pelagic Records)

Tunes with integrity...what will they think of next?
Release Date: 
21 Apr 2013 - 11:30pm

Sinister piano introduces the listener to As Above, the first track on this rather new and spiffingly good album by Sydney-siders Lo! The tune is trance-like (but not in a

Call Of The Void - Dragged Down A Dead End Path (Relapse Records)

Nimble Genre Jumping...
Release Date: 
1 Mar 2013 - 12:30am

I think the full title for this album should be Dragged Down A Dead End Path and Beaten With A Piece of Lead Pipe, such is the level of madness delivered on Call Of The Void''s (pr

Pombagira – Maleficia Lamiah (Black Axis)

Sludge Doom at the Gates of Dawn.
Release Date: 
18 Mar 2013 - 1:30pm

Pombagira has a funny name, at least for a Brazilian, because it is an entity from the afro-brazilian religion called Umbanda (a Brazilian Voodoo to be more exact), and it’s very p

Archon - Ouroboros Collapsing (The Path Less Traveled Records)

Nurse! I'm confused...
Release Date: 
4 Feb 2013 - 11:30pm

Archon's Ouroboros Collapsing album is confusing and frustrating me terribly; I can't work out if I like it or if it needs further work.

Ichabod - Dreamscapes From Dead Space (Rootsucker Records)

Get your freak on, baby...
Release Date: 
31 Oct 2012 - 12:30am

Dig out your velvet pants and beads because Ichabod have come to town, touting their unique brand of psychedelic sludge in Dreamscapes From Dead Space, their fifth full le

Cultura Tes - El Mal Del Bien (Devouter Records)

Venezuelan Sludge-based Fun...
Release Date: 
12 Nov 2012 - 12:30am

Cultura Tes hail from Venezuela and are making waves across the world with their second album El Mal Del Bien (which is Wrong From Right in Spanish, if memory serves me co

On Pain Of Death - Year Naught Doom (Handshake Inc)

Doom, doom, doom, doom, wonderful doom, wonderful doom, doom, doom, doom...
Release Date: 
16 Sep 2012 - 11:30pm

This album was actually made during 2010/2011 so you may well ask: why am I reviewing it now?

Tombstones - Year of the Burial (Soulseller Records)

Help! I'm being crushed by a slow moving juggernaut...
Release Date: 
19 Apr 2012 - 11:30pm

Down tempo. Sludge. Doom. Big muff, huge fuzz. All words equally valid to describe Tombstones' Year of the Burial.