Qaalm - Resilience & Despair (2022)

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I've been sitting on my hands patiently for Qaalm's debut album ever since Hypaethral Records announced it and then benevolently dropped me an early listening link—The small perks of being a sonic traveller is that you can use tact and guile to convince people to send you unreleased records in exchange that you might put together a few (positive) words to promote a record.

Qaalm's aptly named debut 'Resilience & Despair' needs no promotion beyond its sonic achievements. This album is an uncontested aural monolith of doom and sludge coalescing into four towering tracks drenched in dour semi-funeral doom tonnage rife with crumbling sludgy guitars and plodding drums as former Harassor overlord Pete Majors lays waste through that uncanny vocal rasp of his which bears more resemblance to coughing up blood and spewing bile than it does "singing"… totally charged and feral—A similar comparison can definitely be made with doom/sludge zealots as Baton Rouge's Thou and Chicago's Indian in terms of range and grit. 

'Resilience & Despair' is an "Abandon All Hope" sign aimed at everyone. It’s like being sucked into the nether, a slow and heavy trip into the abyss filled with down-tuned guitars and a pummelling energy. That being said, I’d be remiss not to point out the success that this album has when it segues into lighter territory, trading chopping block heaviness for compelling melodies and floating passages—It's the sonic equivalent of sour and spicy. A force meant to awaken and bolster its counterpart, which is done with aplomb here by Qaalm. Devastating heaviness coalescing into something purely atmospherical with a tonne of weight behind it! Abandon all hope.

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Fans of Mizmor, Thou, Ahab, Convocation, Grief and Burning Witch will find plenty to like within the 1-hour+ runtime of this heavy hitter. 

Hypaethral Records (in connection with the esteemed Trepanation Recordings) was incredibly cool to send me 10 free download links for readers (and takers) of Severed Heads Open Minds on a first come first served basis… So big thanks to those guys! Drop a comment here or send me a message through Instagram to claim your download link ya heathens & GET THIS BILLOWOUS DOOM IN YOUR EAR CANALS.

Qaalm - Resilience & Despair (bandcamp)

Qaalm - Resilience & Despair (download link)

Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave (2022)

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Here's another album I'm looking forward to based off the teaser tracks on their respective bandcamp page, Cloakroom's third full-length, Dissolution Wave. I can deduce, by unpacking what I'm hearing in these three songs that this shit is going to be a scintillating coast down sonic highways traversing shoegaze, drone, bits of sludge and indie with helpings of stoner rock and post-punk (just to namedrop a few more genres into the fray).

I would be jumping to conclusions to speak any more factually without actually hearing the full album first, but it sounds like it's the bands most cohesive effort yet, which is saying something for me because I was never really gung-ho about the two previous albums fully. Again, speaking preemptively, it sounds as if everything has come to full bloom on Dissolution Wave. The songs are robust and the production is right on the fucking money—when it needs to pack a hammer, it does so with force, when it needs to float in suspended animation, it gently sways along beautifully, when we ask it to marry the two forces, it answers with complete fluidity.

I find it tiring to read about music in an overly-intellectualized way, so I'll try to say this succinctly. The overall tone is a shifting one. Unfurling riffs and tone that hit like a megaton hammer towards gradually cascading into ephemeral shoegaze and drone that inevitably sputter into moments of dream-pop. Which is only to be cut back into a vast doom like territory filled with more crunching lo-fi guitars and reverb. Highly recommended!

Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave (bandcamp)

Vorpal Sword - Omens (2021) [Demo]

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My comrade and crony for all things reverb soaked Dream pop/Shoegaze has released another gem of uncompromisingly raw black metal under the prolific umbrella of his label, Rising Beast—And not unlike everything else he puts out, it's right on the fucking money!

Omens musical landscape is one with sparse foliage or places of refuge amidst the expanding sprawl of heavily blown out black metal, that is in personality and ethos, equal parts raw and musing—But it's terrain isn't totally devoid of life, not at all, peppered throughout the hanging guitars and thick fog of noise are delicate ambient passages (created by the Korg Monotron?) which offer a brief respite from the proverbial sonic deluge. It's all very intentional and cohesive. Now without being pedantic, the love Horus has for dream/noise pop and shoegaze are on full display here, with absolute tact and grace. 

If you're unfamiliar with Vorpal Sword, check it out. And while you're at it, check out everything else under the banner of Rising Beast and toss in a few bucks into whatever strikes you down—Do your part in keeping the underground lit!

Vorpal Sword - Omens (bandcamp)

Amulets - Blooming (2021)

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You know when you go out for sushi and you eat a fresh piece of ginger in-between your meal as the sort of palate cleanser to maximize the impact of flavours between bites? Blooming is the sonic equivalent to that practice. At least when it comes to the curation of this blog and what it is I choose to post in-between what. It can't just be a consistent deluge of black/death metal posts… you should take the palate cleanser.

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What Blooming is is a floating audio piece comprised of mixing ambient drone, shoegaze, experimental electronic, tape loops—Utilizing the imperfections of analog tape to traverse a soundscape that leaves the listener quite open to its own interpretation. Whenever something is presented minimally, we will often use the empty space to fill in whatever emotion or thought we experience in that thing. The same could be said of Blooming—It's an open black room, and you're free to move around in it in anyway you see fit. Enjoy.

Amulets - Blooming (bandcamp)

LLNN - Unmaker (2021)

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Danish post-hardcore and sludge outfit, LLNN, are trying to get back to what they accomplished on one of the better releases in 2018 (among good company) with their new full-length, Unmaker. LLNN draw from a wide well of musical influences, pulling from their ambient soundscapes that serve to maintain an atmosphere, almost lulling and mollifying the listener before an inevitable wave of crushing metallic hardcore (with a prominently post-hardcore angle) and sludge berate the ear canals. It's forward thinking, but not wholly unique, but it's a welcomed breath of fresh air in a overcrowded palette of other bands trying to do the same thing and falling short. We only have two songs to go by now, until it releases in September, but I remain optimistic. 

LLNN - Unmaker (bandcamp)

Big Brave - Vital (2021)

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This monolithic slab of drone came out a mini aeon ago and for some reason I have been sleeping on its dedicated post. It was never not going to be posted here. I have listened to this record a lot… It's a hefty listen, permeated throughout is Big Brave's signature lofty guitar chords buzzing around in a trance like state as reverb and feedback collide into each other creating waves of mollifying noise modus operandi. If you're at all familiar with Big Brave, which you should be, then you know what to expect in Robin's inspired vocal croon—Incantation like, ritualistic and poignant with a whole heap of heft and energy behind it. Still on Southern Lord after all these years too, I like it.

Big Brave - Vital (2021)

Divide & Dissolve - TFW (2020)

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Divide & Dissolve are a two-piece – Very loud and supremely glacial doom and drone encompassed of Takiaya Reed and Sylvie Nehill of Melbourne, Australia, who met and united under the bond that they are both of indigenous background and began to create music, pounding and hypnotic, as a means to lay down the bedrock of their creative outlet, beliefs and messages. All of this is accomplished through a dense wall of sound that utilizes Takiaya guitar and saxophone drone over top the churn of Sylvie's drums, it's powerful and transporting and I'm eager to hear more than just this one song off of TFW.

I don't know where it's going, but I'm all in…

TFW (bandcamp)

Failure Ritual - Apathy (2015)

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Everything that has been put out under the umbrella of Failure Ritual has been great, hypnotizing and plodding ambient black metal that utilizes space and repetition to drive the listener into a state of hypnosis or induced psychosis. It's drone is long and consistent and sounds like a sonic form of mania through a winding channel of muffled screams against a wall of dense mollifying guitars as war drums beat in the distance. It's hefty and haunting but somehow manages to be catchy in its rhythmic way, and it often feels as though you have turned the same corner over and over with only the faintest difference to set it apart.

And to add even more layers to its already enigmatic presence, It's mostly unknown as to who is behind Failure Ritual, but I have read speculations that it might be Adam Kalmbach of Jute Gyte. I have nothing in common with somebody who can't get behind this, as the Swedish people say, PURE FUCKING ARMAGEDDON!

Apathy (bandcamp)

Cindy Lee - Act of Tenderness (2018)

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Haunting. Forlorn. Beautiful. Cindy Lee's musical landscape has always been all of these things, a sonic network woven from a wrenching guitar tone, a bleak synth backdrop and an atmosphere soaking heavily in its own folly, stewing in its sadness, marinating in a maddening pond of dismal thoughts and past hurts. This is what it feels like, mostly. There is always this undeniable undertone of warmth and something comforting about it all though, like any good artist or any good fatalist, it's up to the author to conjure up a feeling of hope, even if it's wishful thinking. Nobody likes a total Nihilist.

Act of Tenderness is just that, tender, but it's also everything above and everything below the heart, sitting in the gut and living in the hippocampus. You didn't even know it was there until now, as you sip from your black coffee you realize that. Look at me now, one moment I was listening to Moonknight's Ligeia feeling absolutely nothing in-particular and now only two songs in on this album I'm my most primordial and pensive self. Form your own opinion and stop caring about what other people think, anyway.

Take a listen.

Act of Tenderness

Also definitely listening to her 2017 release, Malenkost. It's grim as black metal and soft as cashmere.

Ggu:II - waan:hoon (2014)

This album was submitted to me via email a little while ago with the message: "Hi Chris, a few months ago I asked you for the Leucocis album. I really like it a lot and want to thank you for sending it to me. I'll be doing this in the most risky way possible... Sending you some recordings of my own band. Don't pay for them, if you like 'em I'll send 'em to you."


See, who's to say that spreading music around can't be a self-sustaining beneficiary to the underground movement? It can be, and this proves it fuckface.

The two song EP titled 'waan:hoon' is a warm-sounding collection of sludgy doom with tinges of post-metal riffing and drone atmospherics. The two songs plod along earnestly and fester within whirring guitars and slogging drum patterns that build up to these moments where you want the sledgehammer to be dropped only to be teased by more gnawing doom/drone. I'm please to know the member of this band is a fan of Leucosis too, because few bands of that ilk have impressed me as much as Leucosis has with their venerable and modest catalogue. They are masters at creating palpable tension that finally spawns into a very satisfying peek, to understand this fully, listen to the song Taiga. If Ggu:II follows a similar path then I expect nothing but good things.

Ggu:II - waan:hoon (bandcamp)

(I will update and upload download links upon the bands accordance.)

Sun Worship - Elder Giants (2014)

Ever since Sun Worship got in touch with me to review their EP Surpass Eclipse I have been a huge fan, watching their every move, which consisted of a split with German country-mates UNRU, whom I'm also completely and unequivocally a fan of, obtain all their shit!

I digress, Sun Worship are one of my favorite bands circling this big blue ball we're stuck upon. What the fuck is there not to love? They play an incredibly poised blend of ambient black metal with notes of other musical subtleties that could range from shoegaze, drone, noise, to a post-rock atmosphere. They are independent and fuel their own music in a DIY way and they put their albums on bandcamp for a "name your price" option so you can pay what you can afford.

Elder Giants is a giant itself, and one of the best this year. Climb out from under that rock and buy it.

Elder Giants on Bandcamp (name your price)
Here is the review for Surpass Eclipse

Oxtongue - Where The Light Is Mute; Limited test press vinyl

First and foremost, you've really fucked the dog if you haven't heard this album yet. If you are a dweeb and need further convincing, read my original post about the album here.

Holy Mountain Printing recognized this morose cimmerian beast and decided to go ahead and press 300 vinyls of WTLIM! But until the final result, the limited test presses are in, and they are fucking beauty! (Only 5 were made available for sale) I wanted to post this here to give those of you whom I know really dig this release an oppurtunity to put your money where your mouth is… Oh, and there are only a couple left.

Here is the direct link to purchase the record!

Kokomo - S/T (2013)

I just drank two heaping cups of coffee, which for me is the equivalent to dropping three pints of raw ether and washing it down with a bottle of bourbon… Bear with me as I search my scattered brain to formulate cohesive sentences. Also, I saw the remake for Evil Dead last night so 80% of my body's blood flow is still directed straight into my raging erection. Again, bear with me fuckface.

This is what I had to say about Kokomo's "If Wolves" a couple months back, and it still applies;

"Kokomo make use of no words. They speak through instrumentation in a whirring blend of ambient post-rock, and boy do they speak LOUDLY. It's as if you are watching the world end from a birds eye view… It feels bigger than you, it's beautifully somber and bleak and you can't look away.

The bread and butter of If Wolves is the atmosphere, a dizzying hypnotic drone of palpable emotion, it all feels profound and you can't understand it, you just feel it. Maybe you don't, but maybe you're vanilla as fuck. Listen to it for yourself, if you don't once become entrenched in a series of thoughts, or feel the unsettling yet uplifting ambiance through your blood, check your pulse - you're dead."

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The recipe seems the same this time around for Kokomo's 2013 self-titled release, only this time seemingly more focused on something more minimalist in sound. It is still evocative, expansive, forlorn and entrancing as it ever was… It's not physically released yet, but the digital download is up for a 'name your price' option on the bands bandcamp. I paid a measly $2, well worth it.

KOKOMO (bandcamp)

Interview: Plastic Gods

"Glacial rock", this is the category for which they lump themselves in, which sees itself blending doom, drone, and blues driven sludge with a predilection for psychedelic atmospherics. A washed haze painted in a myriad of hues swallowed in bone crushing glacial rock (get behind the term, Plastic Gods aren't fucking around). I decided to bother Ingó, the vocalist and cosmic wizard of Plastic Gods, though, he also covers throat duties for Ophidian I (whom I interviewed weeks back here), Bastard and Severed Crotch (back when they were still a band and kicking ass). So you see, this is just the man to talk to. Read on fuckos!

I'm sorry for the lack of banner that I normally create for such things, I do not have access to my usual Adobe Illustrator to spew my 'creativity' on. Truth is, I'm in a cafe in Iceland right now using one of my buddies ancient Macbooks (I swear it's from the prehistoric period), I know I know, I'm a dedicated dude. I'll be in Europe for another 37 days or so, which means I'll have to find ways of keeping up with posts. I have no intentions of abandoning you dudes, keep with me, I love you, madly, deeply, truly.

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1) "Fuck, KICK IT!" let's get right down to it… Is Plastic Gods architected to be most enjoyable while intoxicated in some form? Are there hidden passages to be discovered in this altered state?

Definitively best enjoyed while in some sort of state of inhebriation. Yeah just listen to our debut album high as a kite repeatedly and you will most certainly find some cosmic gratification.

2) Ingó, you're pretty much the godfather of extreme vocals in Iceland, how the fuck do you do it? How many times have you played multiple shows in a night?

I guess I've just been doing this for such a long time that I don't really think about it all that much anymore haha. The hardest thing isn't really all the growling, it's more hard finding the time to rehearse and devote myself to all my projects wholeheartedly. I try to organize things in such a way that shows with different bands don't go down on the same date, but there have been plenty of times where I've had to pull double duty!

3) How do you guys handle the obstacle of spreading your music beyond the ears of in Iceland?

That's an area where we really need some improvement. We are all pretty handicapped when it comes to the whole viral thing, but doing this interview is one way, right? 

4) What is the main ingredient to Plastic Gods relatively infamous intense live performances?

We think it would probably be the way that we are all usually in such a state that we just kind of space out and connect with the music and each other. We feed of the energy of the audience and vice versa. It really is an uplifting sight to see people banging their heads, crowd-surfing and moshing like crazy to crushing doom riffs and desert rock grooves.

5) The internet can be a cruel bastard to bands trying to start out and make a name for themselves. Do people like me normally become 'the enemy' or can blogs like this one be a welcomed beacon of 'getting the word out? 

A welcome beacon for sure. Except if you talk shit about us, but then again if you were we'd probably be doing something wrong. As we mentioned earlier we really need to get with the times and utilize all the amazing ways the internet offers promotional opportunities. So to answer your question we think that the internet is a great resource for new bands to get discovered.

6) Here's an uncreative textbook question: What 3 bands influenced Plastic Gods sound most?

Cephalic Carnage, Iron Monkey & Black Sabbath, these bands really got our attention when we started playing music and helped us set the form we wanted to play.

7) With music like Plastic Gods, where emphasis is placed on bone crushingly slow/tense build-up, do you feel that the listener needs to be patient in order to fully feel Plastic Gods true impact? 

Our emphasis isn't always on slow bone crushing music, it really depends what kind of show we are playing, often we want to be to the point and just rock hard and fast but when we play our doom people most of the time have to give us some patience to fully get into what we're playing.

8) Plastic Gods is playing this years Iceland Airwaves, what does an opportunity like that mean for the band?

The biggest gain is that it entitles us to apply for support from Icelandair to go abroad and play. Hopefully it also means that some foreign spectators will attend and we're hoping to get some media exposure as well. We'll make sure to advertise our gigs to the best of our ability when the time comes.

9) The song "Birth" on the Self-Titled album is over 14 minutes long, with over 12 and a half minutes of molasses paced tension that can't help but put the listener in a hazy trance. When you play this song live, do you cut the build-up short? 

We actually haven't played it live all that often, but when we have it has usually just served as an intro to our show. And yes we do shorten it considerably.

10) Pretend I am a (7 foot, 300 pound) warrior. Who in Plastic Gods stands the best chance to beat me in a drinking game? Who stands the best chance in an arm-wrestling competition? Lastly, who would defeat me in a hot-dog eating contest?

Hahaha. In a drinking game it would probably be either me (Ingó) or Dagur (just contact us if you wanna play!). The arm-wrestling would probably have to be either Dagur or Erling. As for the hot-dogs we don't recommend you challenge anyone of us.

11) If you were to get a lyrical fragment from a Plastic Gods song tattooed on your kneecap which one would you get?

Dagur: "Dreamfilled patterns make the bowl. At 20 past we free our souls" 

12) What is one thing about the Icelandic culture that pisses you off most?

Ingó: For me it's probably the attitude that a lot of icelanders have thinking that no matter how fucked they are they tend to think that everything will just be alright, without them actually having to lift a finger to make it so.

Dagur: We are a nation of hicks, rapists and drunks and we try to deny our origin Vikings weren't the nicest as you could imagine, eye for an eye was actually legal and these people have to get their heads out of their asses and get out of denial so we can progress as a proper nation. Im not saying that everyone is like this but we have a real problem with our identity.

13) I have no tickets to the sold out Airwaves festival, how impossible would it be to sneak me into the Plastic Gods set?

What are you willing to do? Let's talk...

14) What changes musically did you guys go through during the period after Quadriplegics to the self-titled released 3 year later? What inspired this change?

Well... actually most of the material on our self titled album was written before and during the songs on Quadriplegic, our first release. Both albums really represent the birth of Plastic Gods and the importance of these two albums for us defining our sound and the width of different styles of rock we want to play. We think since that material there's been more of a change and it will be apparent on our upcoming albums.   

15) How do you keep your vocals in tip-top shape, being a vocalist for 4 different bands must require some monk like training. Do you have any home remedy techniques? (Or does straight bourbon keep the pipes flowing?)

It does take quite a toll, but for me it's all about keeping in practice. When I rehearse and perform regularly I stay in shape. Excessive smoking and drinking tends to impair me, so I do my best to keep it to a minimum around shows. well... that's a lie.

Thanks Ingó and the dudes in Plastic Gods for kicking fucking ass, and thank you for taking the time to do this.

 

Ladybird - Demo 2012

Just in case you were having a good day I give you Ladybird's 2012 demo, which will reach into your heart and shit down your soul with its heavier than a dump-truck full of dead baby's doooooom.
Why of course it's reefer encrusted, it seems as though getting high and doom metal are the best of friends.

Drenched in reverb with riffs that groove and thunder lazily through a chasm of molasses paced drone … a big 'fuck you' to a polished aesthetic proudly adorns each track! It's beautiful, like the inside of a toilet bowl at your local Wal-Mart. It's sloppy because it wants to be, it's unrefined because fuck you, and it shits on everything because it can.

Download (name your price, even if it's $00.00 asshole)

The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood (in-depth)

Haunting [adj]; Remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten. Why the  definition to the word 'haunting'? I'll explain, gather around the hearth children for I will tell the tale of how "All The Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood".

The year is 2010, a robust duo hailing from Rhode Island set out to create the soundtrack of nihilism. An album that is both harrowing and grim in all of its facets; sonically, atmospherically, lyrically, structurally, and yes even visually.

Lyrically outlining the failures of science, humankind, deities and just about everything else negative tinged and forlorn through shrieks that barely pierce through the ensuing chaos, as if the words are being swallowed up and buried under its own instrumentation.

The atmosphere is a swirling wind carrying negative vibes your way, causing an uneasiness through its entirety. The Body doesn't give a fuck about your fragile feelings, in fact, they intend to smash them along with your rather whimsical take on life. Structurally scattered adding to the foreboding nature of the beast, with riffs weaving in and out of the labyrinth of molasses paced drone/doom. The guitars are thick and glacial as the drums beat on in hypnotizing fashion, both seemingly recorded louder than the recording equipment could handle.

What you hear is entirely unique (as unique as something can be while still being influenced), which can be a rarity in todays day and age, but these two burly dudes deliver bizarre soundscapes through a bounty of interesting ways; The Body collaborated with "Assembly of Light" choir group to add their ethereal gospel like chant into a few songs, most notably the opener track  "A Body" where it is used brilliantly to create immense tension for a solid 7 minutes (Demanding patience) until a wall of noise comes crashing in.

There are a number of other oddities that take shape on "All The Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood", in the song "Empty Hearth" which features unusual throat singing and a ongoing nonsensical chant by a religious separatist movement woven throughout the dense sound of guitars and droning drums where its use is edited quite intriguingly. "Song of Sarin, The Brave"  has fragmented quotes from Charles Manson, a man who often goes on these (sometimes brilliant)nonsensical tangents that have manipulating power, it's a suitable voice for misanthropy.

I'll quickly dabble into the visual element, an album cover that only conjures up impenetrably eerie vibes and peculiar intrigue. The two members are shown standing in a barren scenery brandishing guns,… but here's the odd part, they are wearing outlandish garments (I read somewhere that it had something to do with traditional ceremonial wedding garb) that fester up an uneasiness that was surely intended.

Behold, an album that succeeds in just about every way it means to; Create the misanthropic funeral dirge of nihilism, buried in a devastatingly heavy sea of mid-tempo riffing, hypnotic drumming, and unsettling atmosphere through careful layering. The Body will reward patient listeners with fresh frissons of palpable tension and sonic vertigo. This is how all the waters of the earth will turn to blood.

Get it. (thanks to The Elementary Revolt for the download link)

Sunn O))) // Earth - Angel Coma split (2006)

Drone.

Grab if you like: Khanate, Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine, Boris

(((O)))

De Magia Veterum - The Divine Antithesis (2011)

Heres what you do, you download this monstrosity of an album, get someone you know who doesn't really listen to anything extreme, sit them in front of the song 'The Heavens', and write down their response to it in the comments section. It's fun, fucking do it!

This is black metal that is practically drowned out by thick atmosphere, noise and unconventional instrumental chaos. It is a one man project by "M" (Also the man behind Gnaw Their Tongues), and if you were wondering what somebody who makes music like this looks like, then here you go:

He seems pretty down to earth if you ask me...wait is that plastic wrap around his head?

Upside down Heaven

Six Dead Horses - Horn, Tusk, Antler (2009)

In spirit of the You Are Doomed Fest '11 I give you Six Dead Horses. Not the kind of dead horses you find in your bed when the mafia has marked you for death, but rather the kind that eats away at your ear canals for a solid 34 minutes. Brimming with wizard beard appreciation the sound is doomy, heavy, slow and subjected to experimentation under a fine microscope.

The band describes their sound as; "Mammoths stampeding through an earthquake fighting ancient bearded warriors on Harleys while listening to Sabbath and punching babies in the faces."

For this you will want to have your speakers at about a volume that just teeters on them blowing. Enjoy.

Horn, Tusk, Antler

Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante (2010)

This? This is a mindfuck. It goes in through your auditory meatus and my guess would be it comes out through an exorcism. One listen will render you clinically insane and on your way to becoming a serial killer. I am only being a slight bit facetious as this album conjures up thoughts and sounds of a very eerie magnitude indeed.

This unsettling release can be described as a juxtaposition between a variety of different elements such as; Drone, sludge, noise, experimental, ambient, classical, and layered throughout black metal. A production that shares the same murkiness as a fucking mud puddle, atmospherics that share the same haunt as Ed Gein's tool shed, and melodies that sound like a chainsaw lobotomy. I wonder if I can call this the black metal equivalent to Godspeed You Black Emperor without annoying the ironic hipster empire. Ill say it anyway.

Instead of going in depth about the pig fuckery that is this cesspool of musical incredulence (there is a 98.4% I made that word up.), I'll instead toss the download link your way.

Gnaw Their Ears