Irata – Tower
North Carolina outfit Irata first caught my ear four years ago with their Kylesa-inspired (and Phil Cope-produced) album Sweet Loris. Since then, they’ve expanded…
post-sludge
The Great Sabatini – Goodbye Audio
Montreal’s favourite bearded noise-rock wizards – The Great Sabatini – are back with their fourth full-length album, featuring such family-unfriendly titles as “Still Life…
Deadbird – III: The Forest Within the Tree
I guess they’re back from the dead? Roughly 10 years since their last album, Arkansas outfit Deadbird, featuring a few guys from Rwake and…
Ancestors – Suspended in Reflections
It’s been six years since we’ve had new music from Ancestors, a proggy post-sludge outfit that’s apparently gone from a quintet to a three-piece…
Lesser Glow – Ruined
This Boston post-sludge outfit allegedly tackles the perils of clickbait and social media on their debut, 25-minute EP. If Unsane and Neurosis came of…
Heron – A Low Winter’s Sun
This Sludgelord Records signing outta Vancouver namedrops Isis, Sleep and Corrupted in their Bandcamp bio, so you know it’s gonna be heavy. Heron’s debut…
Conan/Slomatics split (reissue)
Before Conan became the next big thing in volume-shattering sludge, they collaborated with their countrymen Slomatics on this six-song split. First released in 2011,…
CHRCH – Light Will Consume Us All
Neurot Records does well in finding bands aligned with the vision of its founders, the mighty Neurosis—and this California outfit is no exception. The…
Atala – Labyrinth of Ashmedai
I really dug the second album from this California desert sludge outfit, which was produced by none other than Billy Anderson—and he’s back behind…
Empress – Reminiscence
I told you Elder’s got a posse! A West Coast gig from our new stoner rock saviours inspired this here Vancouver trio to start…