The stoner and sludge metal legends are still going strong on Cometh the Storm.
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Boris - Heavy Rocks
ReviewsCommentThese might be the heaviest rocks yet.
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
ReviewsCommentWhile a lot more impressive than the preceding Emperor of Sand, Hushed and Grim does buckle under its own weight.
Primitive Man - Immersion
ReviewsCommentImmersion is a more compact and riffier helping of what Primitive Man served up on Caustic.
Baroness - Gold & Grey
ReviewsCommentGold & Grey's awful production overshadows its handful of songwriting peaks.
Bloodiest - "Mesmerize"
New Tracks1 CommentA cut from the self-titled sophomore album by progressive sludge metal six-piece Bloodiest, out January 15 via Relapse.
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire
ReviewsCommentKylesa returns with an album that balances crushing sludge metal with spacey psych rock.
Unsacred - False Light
New TracksCommentThe Richmond, VA-based trio Unsacred have just released their debut LP on Forcefield Records, and you can stream it in full above.
While the band channel a few different styles of heavy music throughout the album, they don't really blend them together as much as transition back and forth between them. Although the music is at once identifiable as black metal, moments of crust-punk and hardcore flit in and out of each track. This stylistic variation is mostly achieved via the drumming, often trading astonishingly rapid blast-beats for more mid-tempo punk cadences, with the occasional D-beat gallop thrown in. Staying consistent throughout are the tortured, throat-full-of-nails vocals and the menacing, sepulchral guitar riffs (which sometimes feel straight out of the Watain playbook). The record as a whole can sometimes feel a bit repetitive, but it's fun to get a Trash Talk vibe one moment, and hear echoes of Dark Funeral the next.
You can purchase the LP from Forcefield Records here.