Something that I've been struggling with since I was a child is severe stomach pain every morning that pretty much wipes me out for an hour or two, sometimes longer. Full-body aches, cramping, light-headedness, nausea, dizziness... my face looks completely flushed during it. Now in my late thirties, I've gotten used to the fact that it's just a normal part of my everyday life. I've looked around for something to distract myself with when I'm going through it, but it wasn't until earlier this year that i finally did. What was it? This little ditty... Sludge music, the marriage of hardcore punk and doom metal, was pioneered in the early nineties by such bands as NEGATIVE REACTION (Long Island, NY, now Central West Virginia), EYEHATEGOD (New Orleans), and GRIEF (Massachusetts). While the former was just as influential as the other two and started earlier than both, they never received much attention. Most people also don't know that t...