Sludge
Full Album Stream: Chilean Sludge/Stoner/Doom Crushers Ocultum Scrape Off the Residue
January 13, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a stream of the latest album from Chilean stoner/doom body breakers Ocultum!
Track Premiere: Bayht Lahm – “Valientes Sin Armas, Sociedad Sin Miedo”
December 15, 2021 Gene Meyer
Hear New Jersey blasters Bayt Lahm debut a new single addressing political unrest in Colombia.
Video Premiere: QAALM – “Existence Asunder”
December 1, 2021 Sean Frasier
Los Angeles funeral sludge newcomers QAALM release a video for their crushing first single, Existence Asunder. Debut album coming March 2022.
Album Premiere: Swamp Coffin – ‘Noose Almighty’
November 24, 2021 Sean Frasier
UK executioners Swamp Coffin pair NOLA sludge noise with doom and hardcore on their debut LP, Noose Almighty.
Full Album Stream: Churchburn – Genocidal Rite
November 2, 2021 Cody Davis
Listen to an exclusive stream of Churchburn‘s Genocidal Rite and pick up a copy of the album now through Translation Loss Records ahead of its release this Friday.
Fight Fire With Fire: ‘Crowbar’ vs. ‘Take as Needed for Pain’
October 28, 2021 Greg Pratt
It’s the ultimate sludge showdown as we pair off Crowbar‘s self-titled album and Eyehategod‘s Take as Needed for Pain in today’s Fight Fire With Fire.
Album Premiere: Holy Death – Separate Mind from Flesh
October 28, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Unimaginable devastation awaits on Las Vegas-based death-doom clobberers Holy Death’s debut LP, Separate Mind from Flesh, streaming now, exclusively, right here.
Video Premiere: Blistering Joy – ‘Funeral for the Death of My Dreams’
October 5, 2021 Emily Bellino
Chaotic hardcore band Blistering Joy release video for “Funeral for the Death of My Dreams.”
Album Premiere: Tumba de Carne – ‘Decatexis // Perpetuo Altar’
September 22, 2021 Sean Frasier
Argentinian newcomers Tumba de Carne emerge from the tomb with five meaty and mighty cuts of discordant death madness on Decatexis // Perpetuo Altar.
Full Album Stream: Trappist / Connoisseur – “Cross Faded”
September 8, 2021 Emily Bellino
Powerviolence vets and craft beer experts Trappist get Cross Faded with Oakland powerviolence quartet Connoisseur .
Fight Fire With Fire: ‘Vincebus Eruptum’ vs. ‘Population II’
August 26, 2021 Greg Pratt
For this Fight Fire With Fire installment, we go proto-metal and pit Blue Cheer and their 1968 debut Vincebus Eruptum, against the more obscure Randy Holden and his Population II.
Track Premiere: Planet of the Dead – “Pilgrim”
July 14, 2021 Sean Frasier
Blast into the deep cosmos with New Zealand stoner doom space travelers Planet of the Dead on their Kurt Vonnegut inspired single, “Pilgrim.”
Full Album Stream & Interview: HELLISH FORM – Remains
June 23, 2021 Cody Davis
Listen to an exclusive stream of Remains and read an in-depth interview with Hellish Form‘s Willow Ryan and Jacob Lee now. Their album officially arrives tomorrow through Translation Loss.
Video Premiere: Mastiff – “Endless”
June 10, 2021 J. Andrew
In need of a good crushing? The new song and video from the blackened sludge-core devotees in Mastiff will get that out of your system.
Album Premiere: Void Tripper – ‘Dopefiend’
June 9, 2021 Sean Frasier
Brazilian stoner sludge degenerates Void Tripper lure doom devotees with promises of Satan and drugs on their debut LP, Dopefiend.
Album Premiere: Hatesong – ‘Chapel Rats’
June 2, 2021 Sean Frasier
Indianapolis blasphemers Hatesong release their LP of blackened pestilence, Chapel Rats. Rest in power, DV Karloff.
Full Album Stream: Boss Keloid – “Family the Smiling Thrush”
May 31, 2021 Emily Bellino
British prog-sludge weirdos Boss Keloid reveal their most eclectic release yet, Family the Smiling Thrush.
Track Premiere: 71TonMan – ‘War is Peace’
May 26, 2021 Emily Bellino
71TonMan spread their message through amp-shaking doom.
Album Premiere: Vorvaň – ‘Awakened’
May 26, 2021 Sean Frasier
Russian hardcore/sludge outfit Vorvaň rise from slumber to release their bruising sophomore record, Awakened.
Track Premiere: Blue Ox – ‘Lesser Gods and the Science of Superstition’
May 17, 2021 Emily Bellino
Blue Ox dole out sludgy, metallic hardcore on “Lesser Gods and the Science of Superstition.”
Video Premiere: Horndal – ‘Rossen’
May 10, 2021 Emily Bellino
Swedish sludge purveyors Horndal tell the sad history and present day struggles of their hometown in a new interview and video for “Rossen.”
Track Premiere: Moanhand – “Endless Embrace”
May 3, 2021 Brad Sanders
Hear the latest slab of complex sludge metal from Moscow-based musical polymath Roman Filatov’s Moanhand project.
Video Premiere: Hvrt – “The Grief That Feeds The Night, Pt. 1”
April 26, 2021 Andy Walmsley
Hear German riffmongers Hvrt bring the… well, you know, on their latest slab of blacked doom sludge.
Album Premiere: Amammoth – ‘The Fire Above’
March 17, 2021 Sean Frasier
Australian doom trio Amammoth light prehistoric joints from a stoner/sludge bonfire on their debut LP, The Fire Above.
Track Premiere: Age of Woe – “Patriarch”
February 19, 2021 Cody Davis
Watch death/doom crushers Age of Woe deliver a crusty vision of humanity’s impending future in the new video for “Patriarch.”
Track Premiere and Interview: Oryx – “Misery”
February 11, 2021 Sean Frasier
Downtuned Denver sludge trio Oryx cast shadows and break bones with their new sledgehammer of a single, “Misery.”
Album Premiere: Greylock and BEDTIMEMAGIC – ‘Split’
February 10, 2021 Sean Frasier
Boston comrades Greylock and BEDTIMEMAGIC join forces for a split album of sludgy bedlam from Tor Johnson Records.
Track Premiere: Bongzilla – ‘Sundae Driver’
February 2, 2021 Emily Bellino
Bongzilla return with new music for the first time in nearly two decades. Listen to “Sundae Driver” now.
Track Premiere: Scepter of Eligos – “Inverted Illusion”
January 26, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Denver’s Scepter of Eligos turn death metal on its head with their debut album Inverted Illusions. Hear the almost-title track right now.
Album Premiere: SNOW – ‘Fast N´Heavy Loud N´Slow’
January 20, 2021 Sean Frasier
Brazilian project SNOW balances sludge and hardcore skate punk on their accurately titled debut LP, Fast N´Heavy Loud N´Slow.