Black Fangs

Sourvein are Sludge/Doom heavyweights. Angry, pissed off riff heavy, no bullshit Sludge. Fans of High On Fire, Buzzoven, Weedeater and other bands like that will shit themselves upon hearing this. First full-length in 9 years after putting out countless ep's and splits. Enjoy!

2011 - Black Fangs

01 - Fangs
02 - Society's Blood
03 - Nighteyes
04 - Gasp
05 - Holy Transfusion
06 - Flux...
07 - Nomadic
08 - Gemini
09 - Bleeding Charm
10 - Nocturnal-Negative Phaze

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Asylum

Morne is a slightly Progressive Sludge band from Chicago. Adding elements of keyboards to their already apocalyptic heavy sound creates quite the atmosphere to go along with their wall crumbling riffs. Longer songs than their previous effort make this quite an enjoyable listen for any fan of Sludge, Doom, and surprisingly Hardcore. Enjoy!

2011 - Asylum

01 - Asylum
02 - Edge of The Sky
03 - Nothing To Remain
04 - I Will See You
05 - Killing Fields
06 - My Return
07 - Volition

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Weatherhead

Helms Alee is a 3 piece band from Seattle, Washington. One guy with a beard (Ben Verellen of These Arms Are Snakes), and two chicks. They all share vocal duties and scream and stuff. Sometimes they all sing together in harmony and it sounds beautiful. The music reminds me of Torche and other similar heavy/stoner/orange amp using/metal that seems to be ever so popular these days. Enjoy this unique band who know how to actually write songs.

2011 - Weatherhead

01 - Intro
02 - Elbow Grease
03 - 8/16
04 - Music Box
05 - Pretty As Pie
06 - Anemone of The Wound
07 - Mad Mouth
08 - Epic Adventure Through The Woods (sucker punch)
09 - Speed Sk8r
10 - Pig Pile
11 - Revel!
12 - Ripper No Lube
13 - Born In Fiberglass
14 - Weatherhead

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The Darkest of Grays

Planks are from Germany and play Blackened Sludge Metal. They have done a split with Post-Black Metal newcomers, Tombs. So if you enjoyed that split or enjoy bands like Tombs and Wolvhammer, then Planks are the band for you. Really angry, pissed off Hardcore-Infused Blackened Sludge Metal. Enjoy!

2010 - The Darkest of Grays

01 - ''Dénaturer''
02 - Sacred And Secret
03 - Tentacles (solitude prevails)
04 - We Are Transluscent
05 - Long Live Depravity
06 - The Dead Return To War
07 - ''Fantasmes''
08 - No Solid Grounds
09 - Fallen Empires Are Ruling
10 - Scarlet Inside
11 - The Darkest of Grays
12 - A Casket City

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Cottbus

Birds In Row are a Chaotic Hardcore band from France and kinda remind me of a mix of old Suicide Note and old Kylesa (self-titled era) with a dash of The Hope Conspiracy. This emotionally powered group definitely stick out among Hardcore today with this punch in the face and leave you crying album. Definitely worth a download for those of you longing for the days of when Emotional Hardcore was cool!

2010 - Cottbus

01 - Among The Ashes
02 - Colossus
03 - Words of Astaroth
04 - The Ace of Fools
05 - Chat Noir
06 - A Kid Called Dreamer
07 - Outro

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Fight Amp

Fight Amp, once known as Fight Amputation are from New Jersey and play a mixture of Atmospheric Doom Sludge with Post-Hardcore elements. They're on Translation Lost Records and remind me an early Kylesa... if you're a fan of that type of music, then you'll love this band. They have done splits with Black Tusk and Kowloon Walled City. So enjoy their two full lengths!

2008 - Hungry For Nothing

01 - Dead Is Dead
02 - Late Bloomer
03 - What A Drag
04 - Samhain
05 - Lungs
06 - Bound And Hagged
07 - Get High And Fuck
08 - Dumb Luck


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2010 - Manners And Praise

01 - Bad Listener I
02 - Time Is Money
03 - Be Safe
04 - Elbows Off
05 - Don't I Know You?
06 - Faith In Man
07 - Better Son
08 - Go Getter
09 - Magic Words
10 - Half A Holiday
11 - Extra Regular
12 - School
13 - Bad Listener II

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Edifice

Al-Thawra hail from Chicago, IL and play a twist of Crust Punk with plenty of Hardcore, Doom, Sludge and Middle Eastern  influences. The only thing I can say about this band is that they are definitely a breath of fresh air in this genre that is mainly thought of as untalented, or lo-fi by most. This band has taken elements of all the above-mentioned genres and created something truly unique. Crushing drums create a heaviness that compliments the guitars and angered barking vocals. There's a huge Middle Eastern vibe being used at various parts of the albums and you will definitely get a vibe and almost groove from it to then only have your brains bashed in by crushing Sludge and Doom riff. Fuck! I think I've rode this album's dick hard enough, enjoy!

2010 - Edifice

01 - Amnesia
02 - Beneath The Edifice
03 - Wine of Power
04 - Eviction Sama'i
05 - Truth's Eternal Sun
06 - The Exile of Hope
07 - Mundo y Carne
08 - Year's Ago
09 - Hatred Thread
10 - Gaza: Choking On The Smoke of Dreams
11 - Outro

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Whoopsie Daisy!

A while back we posted the new Kylesa record only to find out a few days ago that it was the unfinished version. So here it is... again!

The double drummer sludge stoner multi-vocaled beast known as Kylesa. If you're into riffs, doobies, hot chicks who play guitar and drink Jim Beam like water, and drumming that is reminiscent of Sepultura... then this record is for you. Kylesa bring to you, "Spiral Shadow". Be sure to check them out at next years Maryland Death Fest!

2010 - Spiral Shadow

01 - Tired Climb
02 - Cheating Synergy
03 - Drop Out
04 - Crowded Road
05 - Don't Look Back
06 - Distance Closing In
07 - To Forget
08 - Forsaken
09 - Spiral Shadow
10 - Back And Forth
11 - Dust

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V

Unearthly Trance continuously shattering walls and turning guts with their original style of heaviness... a band that Relapse has yet to ruin. Sludge Doom that will make you call Bob Villa to rebuild your room. Did we say this was HEAVY? Well it fucking is, I broke my goddamn fingers lifting it up out of the case for fuck's sake! Get it and get gone!

2010 - "V"

01 - Unveiled
02 - The Horsemen Arrive In The Night
03 - Solar Eye
04 - Adversaries Mask 1
05 - Adversaries Mask 2
06 - The Tesla Effect
07 - Sleeping While They Feast
08 - Submerged Metropolis
09 - Current
10 - Physical Universe Distorts
11 - Into A Chasm
12 - The Leveling
13 - Untitled

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Songs For Singles

Stoner Doom Pop giants Torche return after their monster 2008 album, "Meanderthal" with "Songs For Singles". This album is only an ep and sees Torche tightening their sound even more, writing catchy riff heavy songs that even non-stoners will like. Enjoy!

2010 - Songs For Singles

01 - UFO
02 - Lay Low
03 - Hideaway
04 - Arrowhead
05 - Shine On My Old Ways
06 - Cast Into Unknown
07 - Face The Wall
08 - Out Again

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The Atlas Moth

The Atlas Moth are from Chicago and play Psychedelic Sludge Metal. Recommended for fans of Unearthly Trance, Rwake, Mouth of The Architect, Zoroaster, Coffinworm, etc.

2009 - Glorified Piece of Blue Sky

01 - A Night In Venus' Arms...
02 - A Glorified Piece of Blue-Sky
03 - Grey Wolves
04 - Our Sun, Our Savior
05 - Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
06 - One Amongst The Wheat Fields
07 - Jump Room To Orion
08 - ...Leads To A Lifetime On Mercury

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Wolvhammer

Wolvhammer hail from Minneapolis, Minnesota and play Hardcore Blackened Doomy Sludge Crust Post Punk Metal (description given by drummer of band), don'tcha know? This is some bleak and heavy headbanging metal right here! Definitely for anyone who likes toe-tappin', head banging metal, but like theirs extra blackened and crusty. Fans of The Atlas Moth, Unearthly Trance, and Coffinworm will eat this up, nom nom nom nom. Enjoy!

2010 - Black Marketeers of World War III

01 - Cold Ghosts
02 - Witchery Artillery
03 - World War Winter
04 - Das Kult
05 - Call To Assimilate
06 - Snaketongues
07 - Suicide Brigade
08 - A Cancer of Purity
09 - Monolith

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Virgin Witch

Virgin Witch is awesome Death Doom Sludgey Thrash Goodness that features members of Tokyo thrashers, Pulling Teeth. This is their 1st release and it's only a 2 song 7". So yeah, it'll definitely leave you wanting more. Check out Virgin Witch and buy something. Enjoy!

2010 - Virgin Witch

01 - Nail of Dicara
02 - Sight Beyond Sight

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HOOOOOOWWWWWWLLLLLL!!!

So here's Howl's debut full-length on Relapse Records and it's fucking heavy br00tastic sludge metal. They'll be at this year's Maryland Death Fest so go pick up tickets at www.marylanddeathfest.com and go to relapse.com and pick up their album and/or a t-shirt. That artwork is fucking bad ass. Enjoy!

2010 - Full of Hell

01 - Horns of Steel
02 - You Jackals Beware
03 - Gods In Broken Men
04 - Asherah
05 - Jezebel
06 - Heavenless
07 - The Scorpion's Last Sting
08 - Parish of The Obscene
09 - The Day of Rest

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INVDRS

So Relapse Records signs 100 bands and the small group of actual good releases is slim pickings. INVDRS is a a part of said group. Bands like Tombs, Rotten Sound, INVDRS, and Howl have been pleasant additions to the label. INVDRS play stick to your ribs Stoner-Sludge-Doom that's heavy as balls. So if you like Sleep, High On Fire, Eyehategod or Iron Monkey then this record is for you! This is La Brea Tar Pits thick sludge that will bounce your brain in your skull. Enjoy!

2010 - Electric Church

01 - Worship
02 - Great Beast 666
03 - Black Altar
04 - Church Burner
05 - Death Dealer
06 - Hammers of Hell
07 - Destroy
08 - Drvg Kvlt

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Freakhate

So yeah, the name sounds like they just got off tour with Coal Chamber and Taproot, but they definitely don't sound like it. Imagine a Spanish version of Cephalic Carnage (lucid interval and exploiting dysfunction era) with sludge and doom elements mixed in. Definitely awesome stuff here, the vocals are killer and there's everything one could love about a metal album... spitting, drinking, women, fire, death, liquor, booze, boobs, vomit, and blood! WHOOOOO WEEEEEE! Enjoy!

2009 - It Comes From The Grave

 
















01 - It Comes From The Grave
02 - Infected Flesh Decomposition
03 - Lords of The Alcoholocaust
04 - Abomination Embalmed In Beer
05 - Keep The Cult of The Crypt Alive
06 - Drunk An Buried
07 - Coffin Worm
08 - 3L of Whiskey & A Dead Bitch
09 - Alcohol, Crack & Corpses For Satan

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Profound Lore Ends Profound Bore!

3 new albums from Profound Lore, each different in it's own way. Coffinworm play a blackened sludge metal noise storm that will crush your bones into dust! Apostle of Solitude bringing their depressing dark deep DOOM  to your empty room (and the gayest album cover of all time!). Last but not least, Vasaeleth! They're bringing some old school death metal to that ass... not so much in style but more so in the fact that they're not tech and use no production (according to profound lore). Definitely heavy, definitely evil, definitely my favorite of the 3! So get your ass to PROFOUND LORE and buy some CD's, t-shirts, hoodies, moon rings, candles, 12", 7", 3" MCDs, box sets, and other shit!

2010 - Coffinworm - "When All Became None"

01 - Blood Born Doom
02 - Start Saving For Your Funeral
03 - Strip Nude For Your Killer
04 - Spitting In Infinity's Asshole
05 - High On The Reek of Your Burning Remains
06 - The Sadistic Rites of Count Tabernacula

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2010 - Apostle of Solitude - "Last Sunrise"

01 - Last Sunrise (requiem)
02 - Acknowledging The Demon
03 - Other Voices
04 - Letting Go of The Wheel
05 - Hunter Sick Rapture
06 - December Drives Me To Tears
07 - Sister Cruel
08 - Frontiers of Pain
09 - Coldest Love

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2010 - Vasaeleth - "Crypt Born & Tethered To Ruin"

01 - Wrathful Deities
02 - Figures of Chained Spirits
03 - Curse Seeping Through Flesh
04 - Gateways To The Cemetery of Being
05 - Poisoned Tongue
06 - Spirit of Noxious Miasmas
07 - Adorned & Iridescent
08 - Crypt & Tethered To Run

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*prepare yourself for more Black Metal in the coming posts, I've been on a big Black Metal kick and will bring forth the blackened (from frostbite) grimmness in the next few posts. Pure bleak, bottomless, empty, sighing black metal... kvlt kvlt kvlt kvlt kvlt!

Ufomammut (say what!?)

New ep (wish it was more) from the Psychedelic-Stoner Sludge Metal band, Ufomammut! Those new to Ufomammut... wikipedia Enjoy!

2010 - Eve

01 - I
02 - II
03 - III
04 - IV
05 - V

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2 More Ways I Learned How To Alienate Myself From The Opposite Sex

So it's 6th grade and I constantly listened to both of these albums and chicks didn't dig me, so yeah. This shit was super metal to me back in the day. It may not be as cool as saying you listened to Slayer when you were 5 and Cannibal Corpse entered your life at age 8... but whatever, kinda had to listen to what I could get my hand's on bro! Sorry I couldn't live down in Florida during their big death metal scene era. HA! White Zombie... why I think Rob Zombie is still cool regardless of the solo material he puts out... So see what makes movies like House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects the way they are.

1992 - "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1"

01 - Welcome To Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag
02 - Knuckle Duster (radio 1-a)
03 - Thunder Kiss '65
04 - Black Sunshine
05 - Soul-Crusher
06 - Cosmic Monsters Inc.
07 - Spiderbaby (yeah-yeah-yeah)
08 - I Am Legend
09 - Knuckle Duster (radio 2-b)
10 - Thrust!
11 - One Big Crunch
12 - Grindhouse (a go-go)
13 - Starface
14 - Warp Asylum

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1995 - Astro-Creep: 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction, And Other Synthetic Delusions of The Electric Head

01 - Electric Head Pt. 1 (the agony)
02 - Super-Charger Heaven
03 - Real Solution #9
04 - Creature of The Wheel
05 - Electric Head Pt. 2 (the ecstasy)
06 - Grease Paint And Monkey Brains
07 - I, Zombie
08 - More Human Than Human
09 - El Phantasmo And The Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama
10 - Blur The Technicolor
11 - Blood, Milk, And Sky


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Jucifer

So here's another band playing at Maryland Death Fest 2010... however, this band has many attendee's scratching their head. Jucifer at a death fest? It's true this band doesn't play death, black, grind, or thrash metal... however, they play the loudest sludge doom you ever heard. It may be typical fashion to say "no clit in the pit", but this chick (amber valentine) can sing her ass off and not only that she plays using 9 cabinet amps (or more) and blows the clothes off of people like an 80's rock video. Her and husband Edgar Livengood tour nomad style constantly and drop albums every few years. Their last album, "L' Autrichienne" was a concept album about Marie Antoinette. It's tracks all differed in style and range from heavy and fast to slow and deep and everything in between. So we decided to throw said album up on the Poonangular blog. So check out this different, yet awesome album that definitely shows that you can't judge a book by its cover. Not only that, but Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer/Agoraphobic Nosebleed fame did production on the album, so you know it's loud. Basically if you like Black Sabbath, The Melvins, or PJ Harvey, then you'll enjoy this record. Play this at extreme volumes!

2008 - "L'Autrichienne"

01 - Blackpowder
02 - Thermidor
03 - To Earth
04 - Deficit
05 - Champ De Mars
06 - Fall of The Bastille
07 - To The End
08 - Armada
09 - L'Autrichienne
10 - Behind Every Great Man
11 - October
12 - Birds of A Feather
13 - Traitors
14 - The Law of Suspects
15 - Noyade
16 - The Mountain
17 - Window (where the sea falls forever)
18 - Fleur De Lis
19 - Procession A La Guillotine
20 - Coma
21 - The Assembly

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