The Human Race is Filth (THRIF) suggest in their name that they play a misanthropic brand of extreme metal. You don’t expect lollipops and balloons from a band that started…
Tag: sludge
The death of Caleb Scofield in 2018 could have ended Cave In, but they honoured their late bassist by mixing and mastering their last demos with him for 2019’s acclaimed,…
Powerviolence quartet, Trading Hands, features some of the most recognisable names from the extreme metal scene in the English home counties. SBR readers might know one or two of them.…
Milton Keynes might be the birthplace of prog metal heavyweights like Tesseract and Monuments, but the town of brutalist architecture and red-brick housing can add a new name to the…
Sheffield sludge merchants, Kurokuma, have been around since 2013. Having already made an impact on the underground scene with a string of EPs and split records, they’re now ready to…
Hertfordshire duo, Dreadbeggar, finally release their debut EP after sitting on it for four years, and it’s full of nasty riff-fuelled guitars. This is sludge metal the old school way…
If there’s one sub-genre with plenty of life left in the tank, it’s post-metal. The raw emotion, sense of anguish, and willingness to incorporate avant-garde elements into the music mean…
Remember the name Voidgazer and keep it in the back of your mind for the next time somebody says modern metal is uninspiring and bereft of ideas. The Missouri quartet…
Danish post-metal/sludge experimentalists, Kollapse, released their debut album, Angst, in 2017 and retreated into isolation long before Covid-19 came along. Now reduced from five in number to a power trio,…