Band:	Domkraft
Album:	Seeds
Style:	Sludge metal, Stoner metal
Release date:	April 2021

01. Seeds
02. Perpetuator
03. Into Orbit
04. Dawn Of Man
05. Tremors
06. Krank Blekhet
07. Audiodome

Have you ever watched the movie Casino? Well (spoilers), Seeds by Domkraft is like that final scene where the guy who played Billy Bats in Goodfellas takes a baseball bat and just goes off on Joe Pesci. Swap Frank Vincent out for Domkraft and imagine the word RIFF in huge letters on the bat. Now substitute your head in for Joe Pesci. That's this album.

So Domkraft are some Swedish hooligans and ne'er-do-wells that take a hell of a lot of what I like in metal and distill it into a punishing offering.

Start with the key to pretty much all good metal - RIFFS. Nothing terribly extraordinary in terms of technique and played with all the subtlety of an automobile hit and run. Primal hammering of the guitar, matched by pounding of the drum kit and bassline. Coat this raw power in a layer of distortion, wah, delay and fuzz. Repeat until the constant repetition of said riffs batters you into some droning hypnotic stupor.

Now tack on some quasi-lead melodies and a vocalist that sounds like he fell down a well and has been living off live rats for a decade. Howling, reverbed and sort of distant.

The end result is an album with the impact of that aforementioned scene of Casino, only played at half speed. And I'm not sure Domkraft will, uh, Ditchcraft a hole to hide your body in some midwestern cornfield when they are done battering you.

If I were to have to point to some aspect of this album as a negative, it's a bit repetitive. They have a style and they stick to it. Songs sound mighty similar to one another, but hey, that's the formula and also what makes the album so masochistically enjoyable. So yeah, seven tracks that are mighty similar to one another, yet still seven mighty tracks.

If it ain't broke (but the listener's skull is), don't fix it.

I've checked out a lot of psychedelic stoner/doom/sludge albums over the years, this is one of those rare treats where before I got through the second track, "Perpetuator", I'd already posted that all-too-familiar Futurama "Take my money!" meme, hit the "buy" button and was mid-download.

Quit reading, quit thinking and just go bandcamping and fire up either the opener "Seeds" or the closer, "Audiodome". If you don't feel like your head's in a vice and about to pop like a grapefruit, well, to do a callback to Joe Pesci, "you motherfucker you."