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I come back from a month of travelling to a thread on Sludge (to add another term). Awesome, cuz I love sludge and doom "music". One of the scariest listening experiences I've had was blasting SUNN0)) in the dead of the night, stoned, in some mini-van while rain was dripping down the windows. I couldn't help but think of some Lucio Fulci movie where the killer comes in and slashes to death some poor woman. Low rumble, throb and constipated hum.
I, too, recommend the evils of Toadliquor, whose singer now lives in my town for some reason. Khanate was a great find before I left, particulalry their track about wearing skin. Noothgrush, Eye Hate God, Bongzilla, and Grief all sort of fall into the Doom metal genre but are a little more Sabbathy than Khanate or SUNN0)). I'm actually going to go see SUNNO)) on the fourth, so yay for me. In more of the avant garde circle, there's the band Dead Machines (with one of the guys from Wolf Eyes) which is a great smudgy electronic drone band. I also definitely recommend Birchville Cat Motel whose "Beautiful Speck Triumph" is certainly a masterpiece of sustained dirty but ethereal drone, sometimes sounding like a fire made of crickets mixed with outerspace alien communique interceptions. The whole New Zealand art-rock scene produce lots of amazing droney stuff that I love, although it's hard to get abroad (CJA, Antony Milton, Campell Kneale.) A lot of it falls into the Vibracathedral Orchestra/Skullflower area which is always okay with me, although I find much of the New Zealand stuff more interesting and less pretentious. Oh and I can't forget the great drone that comes out of the Mirror/Andrew Chalk/Christoph Heeman zone which, in turn, leads to the Nurse with Wound/Current 93/Coil axis (which I haven't gotten much into but always hear is great). Whew, I think that may be enough name dropping for the day. But I do really love drone and sludge so.... |
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