Tag: Noothgrush

  • Noothgrush/Corrupted split (reissue)

    Noothgrush/Corrupted split (reissue)

    Listen up all you Sludgy-Come-Latelys, cuz this is the real-deal, right here. Originally released in ’97, this split between Oakland OGs Noothgrush and everybody’s favourite bunch of Japanese hispanohablantes, Corrupted, has been remastered and reissued by 20 Buck Spin. Noothgrush starts us off with the caustic hate doom of “Hatred for the Species.” We get…

  • Opium Lord – The Calendrical Cycle: Eye of Earth

    Opium Lord – The Calendrical Cycle: Eye of Earth

    Can’t say I’m too familiar with Opium Lord, a UK sludge outfit, but they’re coming to Toronto with Primitive Man on July 17, which is reason enough for me to check out their debut album here. The Calendrical Cycle: Eye of Earth opens right off the bat with the type of down-tuned riffage that instantly…

  • Brainoil – Brainoil

    Brainoil – Brainoil

    Like fellow Oakland outfit Noothgrush, Brainoil is/was a Bay Area sludge band that only issued one album, disappeared, then more recently reunited with new material (which I reviewed here three years ago). Well, this is that album, soon-to-be reissued by Tankcrimes Records. It’s no Erode the Person, but tis certainly none too shabby. The band…

  • Noothgrush/Coffins split

    Noothgrush/Coffins split

    By Gruesome Greg Both of these bands are certainly no stranger to splits—this is Noothgrush’s 11th and the 16th(!) for Coffins.  And while they’ve shared sides with the likes of Sourvein, Hooded Menace and Corrupted before, this could very well be their most crushing collab yet. Noothgrush starts us off with three tracks, beginning with “Humandemic,” a…

  • Noothgrush – Live For Nothing

    Sludge and college radio go together like chloroform and a dirty rag, so it’s only fitting that the new Noothgrush compiles two college radio appearances they made in the late 90’s.