Sludge
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.
Album Premiere: Morpholith – ‘Null Dimensions’
December 2, 2020 Sean Frasier
Icelandic voidwalkers Morpholith teleport listeners with the cosmic doom of their Null Dimensions sophomore EP.
Album Premiere: Possessor – ‘Damn the Light’
October 28, 2020 Sean Frasier
UK horror fiends Possessor wield a mighty sludgehammer on their new monster-conjuring LP, Damn the Light.
Album Premiere: Junior Bruce – ‘Pray for Death’
October 21, 2020 Sean Frasier
Floridian sludgelords Junior Bruce return to prove they’re the headless kings of swamp metal with their Pray for Death LP.
Album Premiere: False Gods – No Symmetry … Only Disillusion
October 14, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Thou shall bear witness to New York’s False Gods singular debut full-length. Hear No Symmetry … Only Disillusion in its entirety right here.
Album Premiere and Interview: Empress – ‘Premonition’
September 30, 2020 Sean Frasier
Vancouver post-metal project Empress achieves sonic catharsis on their debut LP, Premonition. Listen to the exclusive stream now.
Album Premiere: Bosphorus – ‘Slow Burn’
September 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Scottish post-hardcore sludgians Bosphorus slowly and carefully lower their massive, ground-shaking debut album Slow Burn.
Ontario doom-duo Vile Creature host interactive record-release concert tonight!
August 14, 2020 Aaron Salsbury
Glory, Glory! The Vile Creature interactive live stream adventure/performance goes TONIGHT!
Video Premiere: Primitive Man – ‘Consumption’
August 14, 2020 Emily Bellino
Denver death-sludge trio Primitive Man release an unsettling new video for “Consumption.”
Video Premiere: ZYCLOPS – “Ghost”
July 30, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Watch the debut video from Texas sludgelords ZYCLOPS.
Track Premiere: Unruly – “Unruly Family”
July 21, 2020 Sean Frasier
Featuring members of Meth Drinker, New Zealand sludge fiends Unruly leave your ear drums feeling like ground meat with their new single “Unruly Family.” Unruly’s self-titled LP is out July 31st from Sludgelord Records.
Full Album Stream: Worship – “Tunnels”
July 15, 2020 Emily Bellino
Let the volume of Worship‘s Tunnels wash over you.
Five Must-Hear Sludge Releases from 2020
June 22, 2020 Emily Bellino
We’re all doomed, so enjoy a selection of Decibel‘s fave new sludge albums for 2020.
Video Premiere: Of Wolves – “Mens Rea (Izaguf)”
June 4, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Noisy Chicago-based sludge/hardcore trio Of Wolves premiere their new aversion therapy-style video for “Mens Rea (Izaguf)” from their forthcoming new album, Balance.
Track Premiere: Vile Creature – ‘When the Path is Unclear’
May 28, 2020 Emily Bellino
Vile Creature embrace uncertainty with new track “When the Path is Unclear.”
Track Premiere: KYOTY continue The Isolation Project with “Faith”
May 27, 2020 Sean Frasier
New Hampshire duo KYOTY have been defeating quarantine by writing an entirely new pensive post-metal song each week. Listen to “Faith” as they continue their amazing series The Isolation Project.
Full Album Stream: Tithe — “Penance”
May 13, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Brace yourself. Portland, Oregon’s Tithe is about to drag you into the death-grind tarpits.
Fudge Tunnel Release Live Album of 1993 Sets
May 12, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Hear late U.K. noisemongers Fudge Tunnel captured at the height of their abrasive powers live in 1993.
Video Premiere: -(16)- – ‘Me and the Dog Die Together’
May 5, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy? The new -(16)- video is! The new -(16)- video is!
Album Premiere: Keverra – ‘Keverra’
April 29, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Get crushed by the debut full length of calculated and atmospheric sludge from Los Angeles trio Keverra.
Full Album Stream: Cyttorak – ‘Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers’
April 29, 2020 Sean Frasier
Rhode Island bruisers Cyttorak summon beasts from distant worlds on their new slab of slowerviolence Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers.
Demo:listen: Deplorable
April 3, 2020 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen buckles under the weight of cruel Costa Rican sludge doom punishers Deplorable.
Album Review: Like Rats – ‘Death Monolith’
April 1, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Chicago crushers Like Rats don’t look back on Death Monolith.
EP Stream: ITUS Lifts Up Doom and Gloom with Primordial
March 12, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
ITUS’s new EP provides doom with a soaring, melodic edge.
Track Premiere: Witching – ‘Throes’
February 20, 2020 Emily Bellino
Listen to a blackened new song from sludge purveyors Witching.
Blades of the Brotherhood: An Interview with Hyborian
February 11, 2020 Dean Brown
How Hyborian have managed to achieve the difficult-to-master balance of writing complex music within the confines of pretty traditional structures.
Video Premiere: Orphans of Doom – “New Ishtar”
January 31, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Check out the video for the opening track “New Ishtar” off the new album from Kansas City psych sludgethrowers Orphans Of Doom.
Read an Exclusive Excerpt from ‘Doomed to Fail’ and an Interview With Author JJ Anselmi
January 16, 2020 Greg Pratt
Read our interview with Doomed to Fail author JJ Anselmi as well as an exclusive excerpt from the book.
Video Premiere: Left Behind – ‘Eternity of Empty’
November 13, 2019 Emily Bellino
Left Behind come face to face with threats of Hell on “Eternity of Empty.”
Listen: Left Behind Know That “No One Goes to Heaven”
November 4, 2019 Emily Bellino
Left Behind show off their heaviest material yet.