Blackened lysergic dirge equal parts Godflesh, Blut Aus Nord, and Amenra. I was somehow completely unaware of this stuff until about a week ago but I think they might be my new favorite band.
Also kinda reminds me of C R O W N before C R O W N started sounding like Depeche Mode.
Obscure-ish down-south grind/ sludge/ hardcore/ death circa 1997. Equal parts Starkweather, Soilent Green, and Acid Bath. Definitely worth a spin if you're unfamiliar.
Fucked up ugly sludge-core from Boston MA circa 2009. I'm guessing that these guys are no relation to the Dread from Rockland MA that was around when I was a kid, but they do seem to feature at least one member of the almighty Upsidedown Cross... Overall vibe here reminds me of Indian/ Lord Mantis/ Buried At Sea topped off with vocals that sound like Seth Putnam having his scalp peeled back with a belt sander.
Pretty fucking killer.
Oddball sludge/ doom shot through with weird samples, cartoon SFX, and pulsating glorps of demented electronic noise... Imagine Fantômas "Suspended Animation" as reinterpreted by "Blotter" era Nightstick and you might have a vague approximation of just how terminally fucking weird this album is.
Foreign Bodies = Ugly lumbering robo-sludge from Croatia. This stuff seems to exist somewhere in the general ballpark of Godflesh or The Body but topped with layers of room shaking amp howl, caustic electronic/ noise textures, and unhinged, painful, "flathead screwdriver to the eye-socket" screeching that kinda reminds me of the guy who sings in Wallowing... Nasty, nasty stuff right here.
Any time I mention Fudge Tunnel the only response I ever seem to get out of my metalhead friends is a vague “Oh, haha, didn’t they sound like Nirvana or something?” and I mean I guess so… Sorta?
Nirvana’s first album was definitely pretty fucking sludgy, and both bands sound like they probably really dug the first handful of Melvins albums, and I guess the vocals are pretty similar if you completely ignore the fact that Alex Newport has a fairly pronounced British Accent? I’m just not sure Nirvana ever sounded quite as overtly doomy.
Whatever, all I know is that this song crushes and if you chose to not check it out because “something something grunge music” that’s on you for being a fucking moron.
Well, it's looking like this is the mood I'm in today, so here's more crusty grind/ sludge from the drummer of one of my favorite grind bands ever (Scalplock, for whatever that's worth to anyone).
The second Derelict Sermon album "Wardycurse" is actually my favorite thing they did (mostly 'cos it's their sludgiest) but it seems to be kind of a hole in the internet so here's their first instead... Reminds me of Ulcer or The Communion with the "Iron Monkey" knob cranked to 11, snapped off, and thrown in the fucking ocean.
Fans of Derailment and Cattlepress will probably cream jeans over this as well.
Monolithically heavy UK prog/ sludge. Equal parts Melvins, Iron Monkey, and Buzzov*en with some definite nods in the direction of The Jesus Lizard, Unsane, King Crimson, and, if I can make what is sure to be the most bafflingly obscure reference you've probably ever heard: Jumbo's Killcrane.
Killer vocals on this album too, for whatever that's worth to anyone.
If Godflesh had recorded Streetcleaner after listening to a ton of bargain-basement goregrind (and while completely fucked up on Lean) it might have sounded a bit like this diseased slab of one man mecha-death-sludge.
Seriously, this album remains one of the most fucked up sounding things I've ever heard even like eleven years since I first laid ears on it.
"Surprise.... I feel like shit again today."
No really, I woke up feeling like crap today. Back in a day or two hopefully.
