DEATHSTORM ~ Blood Beneath The Crypts (2016)

Most thrash bands can be labelled within a particular narrow band whether it be Bay Area, Crossover of 'sounding like' Slayer, Exodus, Kreator etc and thats fine with me as long as it gets my head nodding and feet tapping. What elevates Deathstorm ( The Austrian version) above the majority of its peers is the fact that this band never rests on its laurels in one place. The tempo shifts from one album to the next, track by track, all slay mercilessly whether slashed to pieces by speed, chopped up and diced by mid tempo crunch or simply dragged to your knees by death metal influences.

There is a three track demo cassette ( Swarming ) due in November through Dying Victims Productions that brings yet another chamelionic shift, this time into the era of late 80's American thrash with a slightly rawer sound akin to Dream Death circa Journey Into Mystery.

DEATHRATTLE PODCAST DIRTY 30 ~ A Sludge Playlist

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It's surprisingly difficult to compile a playlist of purely 'sludge' bands such has been the genres evolution over the years so this playlist will often step into the realm of doom, stoner and 'post' sludge. I've chosen bands of various levels of obscurity in the hope that you discover something new that has been lost in the passage of time.

The Playlist ~ 

AAPOAA (Pre Graves At Sea) ~ Peasants ~ EP (2013)

Ba'al ~ An Orchestra Of Flies ~ Ellipsism (2020)

Cairns - Sludge Doom from France ~ We Are A Spit In Your Booze ~ Cairns (2020)

Damned To Earth ~ Down In The Basement ~ Damned To Earth (2021)

EARTH SHIP ~ Catharsis ~ Iron Chest (2016)

Facedowninshit ~ Rough Sleep ~ Nothing Positive, Only Negative (2006)

Gale ~ We Could Have Been Gods ~ Gale (2019)

THE HAG ~ Black Widow Woman And Her Shiny Knife Party ~ Gasoline Arms (2011)

I, THE UNLORD ~ 1000 Gallons Of Piss Turned To Gold ~ Praise The Most Dead (2012)

JAGGED MOUTH ~ Fallen To Incarnadine Loam ~ Louthing (2016)

Kalibos ~ Colossus ~ Hexa (2017)

LACRA ~ Tromen ~ Imperio De Cuervos (2015)

MAG ~ Pragneinie ~ Mag (2020)

NAGA ~ Hyele ~ Inanimate ( 2016)

O.D.R.A ~ Tkacze ~ V (2017)

PADRE LOBO ~ Batalla ~ Padre Lobo (2015)

Quallus ~ Old Fear ~ Quallus (2019)

Remembrance Of Lysergik Funeral ~ 1604 ~ American Tape (2012)

S.L.U.G ~ Bleeding ~ S.L.U.G (2013)

Taigan the band ~ ULie ~ Pure Manure (2021)

UFO GESTAPO ~ Peace Crap ~ Ufo Gestapo (2008)

VAEE SOLIS ~ Ennoia ~ Adversarial Light (2015)

Waft ~ G.C.C.G ~ Chronolith (2015)

Twelve Boar ~ Quint~ Pitworthy (2015)

YANARI ~ No Moral High Ground ~ Marine Leg (2018)

ZATOKREV ~ Reveal ~ (2007)

ABISMO ~ Terremoto Cranial ~ Demo (2011)

BAD ANGLE ~ Seriously Considering Going Back To Drugs ~ Bad Angle (2013)

CANOPY ~ Life Is Just Terrible ~ EP (2015)

DAMNWEEVIL ~ Human Insult ~ It's Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black ( 2009)

REINCARNATED ~ Of Boötes Void Death Spell (2022)

There's a new sickness spreading from Thailand and its in the lifeless form of  Reincarnated. This is grim, cadaverous doom death, the ghastly thing under the bed! I wouldn't be at all surprised if this had been recorded in a mausoleum with the vocalist sealed in a coffin. What I particularly love about Of Boötes Void Death Spell is the fact that there is no compromise between the two genres fused together,  the death metal aspect of the album is suitably horrific while the doom entity definitely dooms, mixed together it's the aural equivalent of a freakish Victorian circus exhibit.

GNASCH ~ SPITE AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL (2022)

UK sludge so bloated its guts have burst and spilled onto the floor. Spite At The End Of The Tunnel by Gnasch has turned knuckledragging into a new life form. Riffs are dense but  glutinously sloppy, it feels as though you're drowning in offal. The album is tuned low but when you're convinced that Gnasch can't drop any lower, or slower, the trapdoor opens and cerebral hypoxia kicks in.

SITHTER ~ Master Of Suspense (2022)

Japanese band Sithter's newie, The Master Of Suspense is an ungodly tapestry of Eyehategod style sludge and the begrimed punk of  Buzzov.en, crudely stitched together by feedback contaminated riffs sounding all the more brutal due to the excellent mix. 

DEATHRATTLE PODCAST ~ Dirty Dozen (July 2022)

 

Deathrattle Podcasts 'Best Of' list for July 2022

Sons Of Arrakis

The formation is fairly influenced by the universe of the Dune novels written by Frank Herbert. The members describe their own music as Melange Rock and Cinematographic Sci-Fi Rock which differentiate them from "the vast sea of stoner rock bands with their lightning armor-piercing torpedo

Eciton

Danish Death Metal

False Gods

False Gods is a unique blend of sludge/doom metal mixed with melodic noise and down-trodden hardcore.

Patricide

"Pura Malum" is a hybrid of a new vision of the genre style and destructive old school death metal. Most of the songs are kept at a middle tempos, and there are also plenty of speedy and atmospheric slows down. Crushing riffs interspersed with melodic fragments create Patricide's music, opium-like and memorable, the lyrical layer is blasphemous hymns that form the philosophies of dark human nature.

Foothills

Foothills combines, Death-Doom, Sludge and Melodic Hardcore to exhibit something seemingly accessable whilst challenging expectations of all the genres at once.

Behold! The Monolith

Grizzlier, rougher-hewn and more technically visceral than they’ve ever been.

Rainbow Bridge

A wall-of-sound between blues and electric psychedelia.

Thirteen Goats

THIRTEEN GOATS takes cues from some of extreme metal's most infamous names (Death, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse) to create a tongue-in-cheek blend of different genre hallmarks that's as hooky as it is heavy.

Infame

Death/Sludge Doom desde el norte de Chile.

Mexicoma

 For the desert toned, riff based, heavy stoner rockers from Umea! 

Battlegrave

Battlegrave is the result of two life long metalheads and great friends putting their minds together to create an aggressive Thrash sound

Existence Dysphoria

"Doom sludge savages"

"Pure filth"

CHEMICAL CRUCIFIXION ~ Chemical Crucifixion ( 2022 )

When a band consists of members that have (dis)graced the likes of Iron Monkey, Cerebral Fix, Ravens Creed and Fistula, you can be sure that this self titled album by Chemical Crucifixion is devoid of any comfort zone. If you manage to survive floods of pestilent grind, you'll eventually be dragged under by surges of  pock marked sludge, to be drowned in decaying breakdowns that have metastasized like tumours throughout. Chemical Crucifixion is bitter, hateful and no respecter of reputations evidenced by the bands tortured take on Celtic Frost's 'Cherry Orchards.' That great riff is still recognizable but mauled and tarnished into submission.