Split - Sloth Hammer & Drvonesound

Here is something for you 'orrible doom, sludge, drone, minimal fans... First releases from both projects.



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LUKE circuit bends dolls and games and speak n spells and keyboards and toys and alien figures and makes them make noises they shouldn't, couldn't, wouldn't make ordinarily.

PAUL plays bass, has done many bands and projects in past years, some you may even know, he plays death and black and grind and tech and doom and sludge and prog and horror and hate and misanthropy and harsh discordance.

Together they make SLOTH HAMMER. They improvise and jam and scare and enthrall and hypnotise and harm and stab and hack and bash and crash and crunch and stick things in your eyes and hit you with planks of wood and mash you into the stinking horrible mush that you deserve to be.



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JOE is bass man for Wiht, and previously Solitary Mass. He makes unnerving, minimal drone musics for those who enjoy their Sunn o))) and Nulll Records release. This is definitely not party music, but for those of you who know how to enjoy ambient bass dronings, then maybe you will have the best time ever with this. Drvonesound, or, as Luke Sloth has coined him, Dr. Vone Sound, will bring the calm into your minds, whilst still making you feel uneasy about the surroundings.






This split features 2 tracks from each project, amounting to 35 minutes of sounds, music, weirdness and unsettling waveforms. Be prepared for harrowing samples and vicious feedback amongst the bass and rhythmical happenings of Sloth Hammer, and negative feelings with atmospheric calm during Drvonesound.

Mucofloris - I Ingest The Elixir Of Life

So, here is Mucofloris's second EP, and what an absolute stomper it is. 18 more minutes of awesome Southern England technical, grinding, metallic, hardcore-ing awesomeness, with oddball and doomy bits thrown in for good measure.

Get this, and then go get THIS as well, their first EP, three tracks of madness!.

Soon, I shall be uploading the entire My Cross To Bare discography as well to all be available for the first time ever... Keep your eyes peeled for that. Nowadays deathcore doesn't know what it's playing at in comparison to their utter brutal riffologies!




AN ANNOUNCEMENT:-
Just this morning I've been talking to Matt the guitarist of Mucofloris, who tells me that Mucofloris have officially called it a day. Absolutely sad times. Make sure you get this and then get on their web pages and tell them how awesome they are. I'll post up news of their future projects on here.


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Who Dies In Siberian Slush - Bitterness Of The Years That Are Lost

So, I only discovered these yesterday, but listening now for the fourth time in 16 hours. Absolutely magnificent 'funeral doom' from Russia, along the lines of Esoteric, Catacombs, Torture Wheel and the like, but a little less overpowering and all consuming. Maybe with a few hints of early Anathema and My Dying Bride for want of better, less monolithic style comparisons. This is still pretty monstrous, bigger fans of the style could probably give more exacting comparisons, but, hopefully that'll give you a vague picture and you'll download...

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... and then, buy this album! This is their first one, and hopefully this will help their word be spread a lot quicker, as they deserve to be known on a worldwide scale to all your doomers!

It might be a BIT gothic for some folks. There's pianos! Oooo! There are some awesome harmonies and gut wrenching passages in this, so, doom on.

Esoteric - Subconscious_Dissolution_Into_The_Continuum

THIS is the beastiest doom band of them all. No argument. I don't even care if 'beastiest' is a word or not, I'm using it! It can't possibly get heavier than these and remain coherent and still atmospheric. Absolutely crushing stuff here, the first song is more oppressive and more overwhelming than most band's entire discographies, and just keeps on crushing and battering and overpowering, even once it has you in submission, it doesn't care. It just keeps on going.

Advert:- Lazarus Blackstar - Tomb Of Internal Winter

Don't download this CD. BUY IT!!! Another one of our 'highly recommends' series. Lazarus Blackstar, utterly crushing sludgy doom from Northern parts of the UK. Get checking them out, love them, and buy this!





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Gig:- Lucifer Rising, Leeds. September 16th 2010

Another top quality Lucifer Rising line up. Take notice!



LR on MS!

Catacombs - In The Depths Of R'lyeh

if you like ultra awesome doom like esoteric, then you have to listen to catacombs. monumental riffs, crushing atmospheres, utter catharsis. don't miss out on these.

Boris with Merzbow - Megatone

these two have done a number of collaborations, and megatone wins for me. this put my brain back onto a different state of consciousness the first time i listened to it. let it do the same to you.

Boris - Amplifier Worship

boris are awesome, and this is them at their fuzzed out doomy sludgy best, and the frog has got breasts!

Tour:- Alunah / Bastard Of The Skies UK Tour 2010

so, to continue on from the post about Alunah, here also are their upcoming gigs spread over a couple of months with the also awesome Bastard Of The Skies...

Check them both out.
Alunah
Bastard Of The Skies

Aug 20 Wolverhampton Giffard Arms
Aug 21 Burnley Sanctuary Rock Bar
Aug 22 Wakefield Snooty Fox
Aug 23 London The Gaff
Sept 17 Birmingham Scruffy Murphys
Sept 18 Nottingham The Central
Oct 16 Coventry Rising Sun
Oct 22 Burton The Appleby

ire - i discern an overtone of tragedy in your voice

This should have been posted up ages ago. Very difficult to find four track EP that came out around the same time as Isis's only really good record 'The Mosquito Control' EP and it was better than them even then. They also did a quality album which I'll upload shortly too, but, if you're into your old Isis, Cult Of Luna, Neurosis and all that jazz, then get on this immediately. More akin to bands like Abandon, but good known reference points I guess.

Absolutely pummelingly harsh soundscapes, BIIIIIIIG riffs (bigger than most of the bands who are in that vein of whatever-post-bullshit-term-ism it is you want to brand it), and utterly disturbing vocals. I've put doom and sludge in the tags because I think fans of those styles will dig this the most.

Also, here's a cool picture I found whilst searching (almost to no avail) for a cover scan!

diascorium - live video 'all things spoil' & 'cnidaria'

Diascorium recently played the Destruction of Colwyn Bay all dayer, July 17th, 2010, and plenty of footage was taken. This is the best. 3 minutes of ravaging, discordant, harsh doom in the shape of 'All Things Spoil', into the set closer, technical death black metal epic 'Cnidaria', the lights and bizarre imagery go together really well with the sounds... see what you think.

More videos are at http://www.myspace.com/diascorium
Download the EP from HERE

salome - salome

so, you've probably all read the interviews with agoraphobic nosebleed now they have a girl singer and sound more like a metal band than grind (although i still like their latest stuff, i can see why a lot don't), well, here is the doom sludge band she originated in, and if you like anything slow, then you NEED this. absolutely HUGE!

isole - throne of void

and here is the fourth installment of mighty Isole releases.
tell me you love this!

isole - silent ruins

and yet more... stop it you're spoiling us!

isole - bliss of solitude

so, if you like doom metal, and haven't heard isole, then, stop what you're doing, download these four albums. some absolutely immense riffs, bleak but somehow uplifting moods. they know how to rock out (a bit) but mostly it's on the slow side, not utterly slow like esoteric or catacombs, but get your ears on these!

isole - forevermore

more lovely isole tunes.

Site Recommendation - Thee Big Black

So, this is something I'll probably do a bit of as well now that the format of the blogging output is different... Here's a mint site to check out..



THEE BIG BLACK
'Black is the new black'!

Click here to get your doom, stoner & sludge fill

Currently available is Issue No. 6 of their zine, and jolly good it is too, and this time they've also put together a double whammy of a compilation, which you can find here...

Black Is The New Black Vol. 1

... featuring some awesome stuff including friends in Bumsnogger and Wiht amongst others. Get involved.

floor - floor / dove

stoner sludge riff grooves with one added extra BOOMS of awesomeness. folks may know of torche, this is pre-torche, and, well, floor are better!



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Diascorium - Abstractions of the Absolute EP

Okay, so, here is the first EP of the new band I'm in, not going to say anything other than please have a listen and see what you think. The zipped file has all the high quality artwork as well as high quality songs in there also. Please please repost the link it's uploaded to on your blogs, myspaces, facebooks, forums, tell your friends, play on your radio playlists... Cheers to anyone who can help in the word spreading.



DIASCORIUM
Formed November 2009, based in Leeds, UK.
Ex and current members of many bands...
PAUL (Reth, Narcosis, Tangaroa),
BOND (Morkret, Ocular Fornication),
GAZ (A Forest Of Stars, Citadel, Motor City's Burning),
BERNARD (Revokation, Rakshasas).

'Abstractions of the Absolute' recorded during March and April 2010, released as a full, free, high quality download on Tuesday 4th May 2010.

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