Saturday, March 22, 2025

KIRITSIS ~ Kiritsis (2025)


 The debut self-titled album from Indiana band Kiritsis and its right on the money, delivering a gut punch of groovy sludge with a slice of spiteful, crusty hardcore to make your bad day even worse. The guitar sounds like someone's running amok through the abattoir wielding a chainsaw, clogged up with blood, snot and chunks of gore.

Kiritsis follows an increasing trend of crusty sludge bands spattering clots of mid paced death metal among their albums, particularly the track 'Deny.Defend.Dispose, straining the sinews of extreme metal around a thick, congealed core.

Have fun picking the scabs off this one.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

ANOINTING THE SICK #236 ~ Crammed In A Coffin


 Who needs a defibrillator when you have the latest Anointing The Sick Show delivering a high energy shock to the heart. 16 tracks to get the blood racing through your veins starting with the hardcore stomp of  Lockdown and ending with the heavily blues infused stoner doom of Witch Mountain.. The filth pit  overflows with the putrid nectar of Spectral Voice, Hulder, Petrification and Yersin and I'm highlighting recent mandatory purchases from Red Eye Acid Magus and a beastly split from Seum and Temple of the Fuzz Witch

~Embrace The Sickness ~

Lockdown
Morbid Saint
In Vain
Spectral Voice
Hulder
Petrification
Night Slasher
The Devils
Deadpeach                                   #6 Feb 2024 Doom Charts
Yersin
Birdwitch
Seum
Temple Of The Fuzz Witch
Red Eye                                         #6 Feb 2025 Doom Charts
Acid Magus                                   BC Name Your Price
Witch Mountain

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

PINE TAR ~ Burial (2024)


Released in 2024, apparently with little fanfare and slipping under most radars by the look of it, 'Burial'  is the debut release from Montreal's Pine Tar. Five tracks of mange ridden, gooey sludge doom with the added toxicity of death and black metal. Riffs of unbreachable power are staggeringly heavy, achieving near critical mass.

If I was aware of this record at the time it would surely have gained a place in my top releases of 2024 list.