Crust - Where Light Fears To Descent

 

Genre: Black/Sludge/Doom
Country: Russia
Year: 2025

1. Soul-Grinding Abyss
2. Premeditation Of Evils
3. Coffin Sodomy
4. Crimen Contra Humanitatem
5. Your Sweet Smell And Bitter Taste
6. Lightgiver
7. Apokatastasis Panton
8. Agony In Blood
9. Frozen Tomb

6th album by Crust. Crust's brand of black metal incorporates elements of doom and post, and whips them into a product that that traps your soul in the abyss. The snarling vocals and seething tremolo guitars, the grimy, sludgy grooves and oppressively doomy chord progressions are all still present and correct, but there are definitely signs that the group have evolved somewhat since the last time we heard from them.

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Conan - Violence Dimension

 

Genre: Sludge/Doom
Country: England
Year: 2025

1. Foeman's Flesh
2. Desolation Hexx
3. Total Bicep
4. Violence Dimension
5. Frozen Edges Of The Wound
6. Warpsword
7. Ocean Of Boiling Skin

6th album by Conan. It works well to tie in elements they’ve introduced over the last few outings while lowering a tonal palette of concrete riffs onto the collective chest of their audience. Everything that’s praiseworthy with the band is on full display here.

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Mass Culture - Barren Point

 

Genre: Sludge/Post-Black
Country: Greece
Year: 2023

1. Point Of Liminality
2. Mist & Tar
3. Bones Of This World
4. Grottoes, Revisited
5. Margins
6. Materialized
7. Grinding Light

2nd album by Mass Culture. Featuring seven tracks of pure heaviness, 'Barren Point' showcases Mass Culture’s ability to craft mesmerizing compositions that transcend boundaries. Each track immerses the listener in a unique sonic landscape, pushing the limits of post-metal and leaving an indelible mark on the senses.

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Oriska - Oriska

 

Genre: Post-Black/Sludge
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2024

1. Sulfur
2. Helium
3. Boron
4. Hydrogen
5. Bismuth

Debut album by Oriska. The best way to describe Oriska is to imagine what would happen if you fused Amenra and then layered on the production qualities of sludge and black metal. The delivery is intense, harrowing, and all-consuming. The instruments combine in a symphony of despair and melancholy that, in the end, feels oddly cathartic.

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High On Fire - Cometh The Storm

 

Genre: Heavy/Sludge
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2024

1. Lambsbread
2. Burning Down
3. Trismegistus
4. Cometh The Storm
5. Karanlık Yol
6. Sol’s Golden Curse
7. The Beating
8. Tough Guy
9. Lighting Beard
10. Hunting Shadows
11. Darker Fleece

9th album by High On Fire, 6 years after their last one. The group really takes an aggressive but nuanced approach with Cometh the Storm. While there are plenty of tracks that possess nothing more than sludgy riffage, there’s also more stoner influences here than in most of their past work.

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Crust - Dissolution

 

Genre: Black/Sludge
Country: Russia
Year: 2023

1. The Color Of Void
2. He Carries The Fog
3. I Serve You And Oblivion
4. Graves Await
5. God Made Some Hearts Of Stone
6. Captivi Infernis
7. The Maniac King
8. Morrigan
9. Blazing The Trail In The Land Of Suffering

5th album by Crust. There is a move to a more blackened sludge territories this time. The black metal influences creeped in a little more, and thus made their music more dynamic.

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Sadhus (The Smoking Community) - Illegal Sludge

 

Genre: Sludge/Doom
Country: Greece
Year: 2023

1. Mel O.D.
2. Fuckin' Apes
3. Fuck Off & Die
4. Eye On Man
5. Illegal Sludge
6. Woodman
7. Filthy Trust
8. Hold Out

3rd album by Sadhus (The Smoking Community). They return from a five year slumber. It’s an ugly slice of angry fueled doom/sludge metal with the band focusing upon a more blackened style of music. With moments of distorted psychedelics and screeching guitars, nothing is quite what it seems with this album.

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Downfall Of Gaia - Silhouettes Of Disgust

 

Genre: Black/Crust/Sludge
Country: Germany
Year: 2023

1. Existence Of Awe
2. The Whir Of Flies
3. While Bloodsprings Become Rivers
4. Bodies As Driftwood
5. Eyes To Burning Skies
6. Final Vows
7. Unredeemable
8. Optograms Of Disgust

6th album by Downfall Of Gaia. It is a powerful and cathartic album that demonstrates exactly why Downfall Of Gaia are held in such high regard and shows that while they honour their roots superbly, they aren’t afraid to take risks with their music and the results speak for themselves.

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Dead Elephant - Unholy Blackened Sludge

 

Genre: Sludge/Doom
Country: Greece
Year: 2023

1. The Great Grinder

2. Bury Them All 

3. Get Sick (And Destroy)

4. Self-destructive Voice

5. They Stare 

6. Mirrored Misanthropy

7. Elephant Haze

3rd album by Dead Elephant. Unholy blackened sludge is what you get here! Down-tempo riffing, heavy drumming, rotten vocal delivery and a muddy production. This time the group crafted everything in the DIY way.

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Conan - Evidence Of Immortality

 

Genre: Doom/Sludge
Country: England
Year: 2022

1. A Cleaved Head No Longer Plots
2. Levitation Hoax
3. Ritual Of Anonymity
4. Equilibrium Of Mankind
5. Righteous Alliance
6. Grief Sequence

5th album by Conan. Relentlessly merciless in its approach, 'Evidence Of Immortality' is a barbaric and brutal album. With down tuned guitars, cranked pedals and ruthless distortion, huge rumbling chords clash with beefy, muscular riffs to create a cacophony of sonic destruction.

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Mistress - II: The Chronovisor

 

Genre: Grindcore/Sludge
Country: England
Year: 2003

1. Rat Piss
2. Psychic One Inch Punch
3. Hell Is Other People
4. Wanker Colony
5. The Chronovisor
6. Hit Bottom
7. No Memory
8. Piss For Blood, Shit For Brains
9. 38

2nd album by Mistress. The album tends slightly more to a punkish grind crust direction than the debut, with more short songs. The structures of the songs stayed pretty much the same, in an unpredictable blur of chaos where some very cool riffs are spewed out from.

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His Hero Is Gone - The Dead Of Night In Eight Movements '7 Ep

 

Genre: Crust/Sludge/Hardcore
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1996

1. Epidemic
2. Headcount
3. T Minus Zero
4. Unvisited Grave
5. Internally Bleeding
6. Richter
7. Marry And Reproduce
8. The End Result Of 11 Months In Prison

8-track 'Ep by His Hero Is Gone. Dark, aggressive hardcore, which featured low-end heavy, sludgy guitars and some manic, guttural vocals. 

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Huntress Of Stars - Endless Landscapes Of Grim Carnage

 

Genre: Sludge/Doom
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. For She Has Drank The Ocean And Strangled The Night
2. The Last Unburnt Reliquary
3. Sentries Of A Dead Earth
4. Avatar To A Land, Renascent
5. Spires And Swords To Pierce The Sky
6. Reborn, Lustrated By Heathen Blood
7. Cerise Waves Of Bone And Flesh
8. Upon This Corpse My Conquest Be Inscribed

2nd album by Huntress Of Stars. The group delivers a high quality blend of sludge with doom metal and it shows how brutal and aggressive don't have to be necessarily fast! 8 songs clocking over the 6-minute mark, that never gets tiring or boring.

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Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

 

Genre: Exp.Hardcore/Sludge/Post
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. Blood Moon
2. Viscera Of Men
3. Coil
4. Flower Moon
5. Tongues Playing Dead
6. Lord Of Liars
7. Failure Forever
8. Scorpion's Sting
9. Daimon
10. Crimson Stone
11. Blood Dawn

10th album by Converge. It is actually a collaboration album with Chelsea Wolfe, comprised of 11 dark, brooding post-metal songs. Despite the dark, horrifying settings and atmospheres it evokes, it is a very enjoyable album. Existing Chelsea Wolfe fans should love it. Converge fans may find it more problematic due to the comparative slowness of many of the songs and the abundance of clean vocals, but the band haven’t traded in their trademark aggression for crooning.

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Fall Of Efrafa - Owslafa

 

Genre: Crust/Sludge
Country: England
Year: 2021

1. Pity The Weak
2. A Soul To Bear
3. Last But Not Least
4. The Fall Of Efrafa
5. Simulacrum
6. Dominion Theology
7. Dominion Theology Continued
8. The Burial
9. Last But Not Least, Into The Fall Of Efrafa
10. The Sky Suspended Into Warren Of Snares

This release by Fall Of Efrafa, contains their first demo and their final live recording. Tracks 1-4 is the first full practice demo recording of their first album, 'Owsla'. Tracks 5-10 are their final ever live performance.

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Crust - ... And A Dirge Becomes An Anthem

 

Genre: Sludge/Black/Death
Country: Russia
Year: 2020

1. Approaching Grave
2. When Winds Howl The Song Of Death
3. Beneath The Cold Clay
4. Clad In Flesh
5. When Eternal Sleep Falls Upon Men
6. Graveland
7. Space Sabbath

3rd album by Crust. This trio delivers a fusion of black metal, doom metal, some elements of post metal on a strong, decent basis of sludge. This album is pretty much old school and jam-packed with memorable musical patterns.

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Sadhus (The Smoking Community) & Agnes Vein - Split 'Ep

Genre: Doom/Sludge/Black
Country: Greece
Year: 2016



Sadhus (The Smoking Community):
1. Abduction

Agnes Vein:
2. Voice To The Void

Killer split 'Ep by Agnes Vein and Sadhus (The Smoking Community). Sadhus' song is heavy, slow and you can feel it pulling you down and capturing you with its distorted riffs. Agnes Vein's song has  heavy riffs, atmospheric vocals at certain points, even though their main vocals are more brutal and the rhythm is captivating throughout the song.

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Fall Of Efrafa - Elil

Genre: Crust/Sludge
Country: England
Year: 2007





1. Beyond The Veil
2. Dominion Theology
3. For El Ahraihrah To Cry

2nd album by Fall Of Efrafa, the second part of their trilogy, lyrically based upon the book 'Watership Down'.The group shifts in style, stripping back many of the punkier leanings of their debut, in favour of a more obviously sludge/post-rock influenced sound. It is only three songs long, each surpassing the twenty minute mark, that makes this record a very interesting listen.

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Fall Of Efrafa - Owsla

Genre: Crust/Hardcore/Sludge
Country: England
Year: 2006



1. Intro
2. Pity The Weak
3. A Soul To Bare
4. Lament
5. Last But Not Least
6. The Fall Of Efrafa
7. No Longer Human

Debut album by Fall Of Efrafa. The first part of their trilogy, lyrically based upon the book 'Watership Down'. Aggressive yet desperate hardcore/crust mixed with atmospheric sludge. A promising release that followed by two masterpieces and highly influential releases for the genre.

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Cruel Bloom - Death Culture 'Ep

Genre: Crust/Sludge/Hardcore
Country: Canada
Year: 2018


1. Gloom
2. Graves
3. Church Of The Glass Pipe
4. No Hope
5. Return To Ash
6. Death Eternal

The 6-song 'Ep was sent to us by the band itself. The group delivers 6 mid-tempo songs of sludgy, blackened hardcore. Raw and rough production with nice, screaming vocal delivery and some noise elements here and there.

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