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The Best Sludge/Stoner Metal Album
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The Georgia quartet is back with their second offering, a dense and lively 70's rock influenced sludge metal jaunt featuring rollicking rhythms, harmonized guitar runs, rumbling bass lines, quiet interludes. Factor in two fistfuls of well crafted songs and fantastic production that somehow lets each component of this cacophony find it's own space and you've got an album that won't leave you feeling, well, blue.
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This southern-fried sludge ode to an imaginary Caligula Manson-esque cult leader will beat you like a pillow case filled with soap bars with dirty riffs, pummel you in the yard with the drums and bass, pass you around the cell block with vicious vocals, and calm your troubled soul with transcendent interludes… And when the sonic ordeal is all said and done, you, too, will find yourself drinking the kool-aid.
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Church Of Misery's Houses Of The Unholy is a hazy Stoner album to the very core. Hazy bluesy riffs, a seventies sound and style, hoarse vocals and to top it all off: a lyrical concept album about serial killers. Wake up and smell the weed, man! Houses Of The Unholy us pure unadulterated stoner goodness, catchier than influenza and one feast for the sick and twisted. Enjoy!
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| Ghost Brigade is one of those bands that play beautiful metal, if that's not an oxymoron. Their sound is heavy and full of metallic elements, that's for sure, but they're certainly not lacking on the melodic and atmospheric front. With passionately screamed vocals, beautiful arpeggios and overwhelming sludgyheavy parts they're sure to knock you off your feet a good number of times. Isolation Songs is a collection of beautiful songs that roughly every fan of Katatonia, Anathema and Opeth should like. |
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| Khanate is one of the jewels in the crown of Extreme metal. Within the realm of metal, in other words ignoring Harsh Noise and Japanoise, it hardly gets any more uncompromising than this. For starters, this baby is slow. Then there's the incomprehensible songwriting, the absolute lack of any reminiscent of structure and the waves and waves of harsh feedback coupled with howled screams. Khanate is music for tough guys that want to show how long they can last amidst nihilistic nothingness. Khanate is a social experiment to see how far you can possibly go. And there's always the small glimmer of hope that they will be able to take it further, further, further... |
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| Fuzzed bass, crunchy riffs, harsh male vocals interspersed with mellow, almost cooed female vocals and you get quite a great sludge stew. Oh, don't forget to include two drummers drumming - combining tribal beats, rolling fills, and the occasional blast to top it all off. A crushing album that will keep a smile on your face while stomping your rib cage. |
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| What? An album appearing in the MetalStorm awards with no rhythm guitars? It's true. It is mindblowing what can be accomplished with some almost chant-like vocals, a bass guitar, a drum kit, and the occasional sitar or other unconventional stringed instrument. The hypnotic melodies within can soothe the savage metal head. |
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This album is metal party music. While the vocals might not be the most compelling in the business, the pounding drums and galloping guitars deftly mixing the energy of 80's thrash with the fun of old school metal result in an album that rawks. This album is a FGT… that'd be a Fucking Good Time to the uninitiated.
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Combining the might of four separate and powerful musical entities into one "all-star" project, the visionaries in Shrinebuilder have erected one amazing sonic temple. Equal parts Wine-flavored doom and Neurotic sludge, with Om-inspired meditative moments, everything comes together seamlessly into a breathtaking album which leaves the flock desperately praying for a second coming.
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"Hey you got sludge in my black!" "Hey you got black in my sludge!" Two great styles combined into one great release. This Brooklyn-based band flow b(l)ack and forth between the two effortlessly, creating a bleak and crushing atmosphere on their full-length debut. The concrete jungle can be just as unforgiving as the forest, kiddies!
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