Tag: Sludge Metal
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Milan-based solo project Inqvisitor, the brainchild of Cliff Scott, best known for his work in Meursault Omega and Sorrowtale, has surfaced with a new single, The Azoth Ritual, ahead of an upcoming seven-track album titled Sublunar Attunement. Operating out of Vespertine Studios where Scott produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered the entire effort himself, Inqvisitor trades…
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If you’ve been paying attention to the German underground over the last decade and a half, you’ll know Hamburg trio Shakhtyor don’t do things in a hurry. Formed back in 2009, they’ve spent the best part of sixteen years systematically ignoring the unwritten rules of instrumental doom, throwing black metal outbursts, spacey synth textures, and…
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If you thought UK sludge-doom outfit Sea Bastard were dead and buried, you’d almost have been right. Formed back in 2011, the band dropped their self-titled debut in 2012, followed hot on its heels by 2013’s Scabrous, earned their stripes touring alongside the likes of Primitive Man and Witchsorrow, and then vanished into the void…
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It took them fourteen bloody years and a decade of relentless nagging from their mates, but Swiss heavy outfit Bagheera have finally got around to dragging their sole album onto streaming platforms. Active out of Lausanne between 2009 and 2014, the band was a bit of a localised supergroup, pulling together members from Impure Wilhelmina,…
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Canadian doom/sludge quartet Destroy My Brains have released WILT, the final chapter in their planned five-album W.I.L.T. series. The title refers to Worthless, InsignifiCan’t, Lifeless and Tormented, with the series exploring self-destruction, trauma and the experiences that have shaped the band’s music. WILT brings the long-running concept to its conclusion. Destroy My Brains formed in…
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Phlefonyaar are set to return with Encyclopaedia Sociopathica, their first full-length album since 2020’s We Rest When The Crows Feast, bringing together doom, death, drone and industrial sludge across their latest collection of dark and abrasive material. The duo of Jim Males and Paul March have been developing Phlefonyaar’s particular brand of heavy music since…
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Swedish heavy outfit Signo Rojo have released I’ll See You There, a new single accompanied by an official music video through Majestic Mountain Records. For more than 15 years, the Karlshamn band have fused sludge, doom, hardcore, punk and touches of 1970s progressive rock into a sound driven by huge riffs, raw emotion and a…
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Concluding a five-album conceptual arc planned since 2018, Canadian sludge metal outfit Destroy My Brains will release their final full-length record, WILT, on August 14th, 2026. Based out of Lloydminster, the trio’s upcoming seven-track release completes a sequence whose album titles spell out the project’s final name: Worthless (2018), InsignifiCan’t (2020), Lifeless (2020), Tormented (2022),…
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based experimental rock project Unteachers have announced their sophomore studio album, Under Bright Sadness, set for release on October 16th via Rottweiler Records. The album marks the band’s first full-length release since their 2014 debut, A Human Comedy. Formed by multi-instrumentalist Stephen Mark Sarro following the end of his previous project, Tantrum Of The…
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Swedish sludge and doom band Kongh are ending a nearly ten-year hiatus with Staining the Ether, their first piece of new music since touring alongside acts like Meshuggah and Yob. Released with a lyric video via Trust No One Recordings, this ten-minute single is a specially edited version of a staggering nineteen-minute track found on…