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OHIO SLUDGE MONSTERS RELEASE SOPHOMORE EFFORT ON LET'S PRETEND RECORDS, BUY IT NOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!  THIS IS THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE ON VINYL!!!!!! 1st pressing: 200 limited black vinyl w/ black sleeves and full color jackets    https://www.letspretendrecords.com/store/lpr-204-flesh-mother-perverse-lp-pre-order DIGITAL: https://fleshmother.bandcamp.com  (download is $3 cheaper here than on the label's bandcamp, which is below) https://letspretendrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/flesh-mother-perverse-lp

Negative Reaction 40 mins ·    The new full length album for NR is finished! The new album is titled "Astrophilia." The release date is Thursday March 19th at 11:49 PM Eastern Time. The Equinox! It can be digitally downloaded through bandcamp . CD copies are also available through our Facebook page . Track listing..... "A Song For The Sun"........ Ch1 "Solar Flare" Ch 2 "Europa" Ch 3 "Luke's Ascent" Ch 4 "Order 66" Ch 5 "Solar Wind / Luke Has Landed" Ch 6 " Eclipse" Ch 7 "Moonbase Alpha" Ch 8 " Luke's Colony"

(latest shirt design, © By Robin) NEGATIVE REACTION's first album in like... a decade(?!) is just about finished - right now it's in the mastering stage at Steer Run Studios, which is Ken-E-Bones' recording studio at his compound in West Virginia (he relocated there from Long Island!!!!).  Speaking as one of the few people to have heard a track from it, I can tell you that it's going to be good ...  I had the privilege of seeing them last summer, where Ken-E-Bones, as he put it, "channeled his inner Randy Rhodes".  That's not just an opinion he and myself share, but his band and a pioneer of the sludge community who witnessed it live.  Get ready to be shocked by these solos.  At this point, I think it's safe to say that his guitar-playing is superior to Matt Pike, Wino, and even Dave Chandler.  So be sure to check it out when it drops! Btw here's the official statement the band released about it last month: Negative Reaction February 29 a...

Download here for $2 or more (as of posting this) : https://illryth.bandcamp.com/album/rehearsal-demo Shout-out to SLUDGED PLANET for the youtube upload!!!  Rather than type something up, I'm just gonna copy and paste what Doomed Wolf has to say about it on the youtube page... Is that just a rehearsal Demo ?!  if yes whats your upcoming album gonna sound like?  listening to Illryth notes many questions come to life, but one thing is certain: Doom scene is flourishing. Such amazing bands around, such powerful vibes. Illryth is one of these occasions. A top grade long-haired gang of 4 coming from Portland Oregon. Slow tunes crawling under your skin in a very Eyehategod-esque trip. Illryth its 104% authentic and legit. but we are so glad their demo recording even as a debut can be placed worthily on a wooden shelf next to very famous bands as the aformentioned.  PS. We are so amuzed when vocals sound like otherwordly audio effects. Bravo Paul.  --...

GAPING MAW from Cincinnati has broken up.  I talked to one or two of the guys about it.  Sad to see that happen, but hopefully good will come of it.  If you haven't heard them yet, go to bandcamp and pick up their swan song, The Big Fuck-Over .  Physical copies are $5, downloads are name-your-price. The Big Fuck-Over by Gaping Maw WOORMS (from Baton Rouge, Louisiana) released a sick album called Slaked this year on Sludgelord Records.  It's on Spotify , Bandcamp , etc.  I strongly recommend it.  Definitely a top five or top ten release for the year.  Grab a copy on splattered vinyl before they're gone!!!! Australia's HORSEHUNTER put out their long-awaited sophomore effort, a self-titled full-length on Magnetic Eye.  It's on a variety of formats.  You can hear it in all of the usual places... Spotify , Bandcamp  (which is also where you can buy it), etc.

Negative Reaction 6 hrs  ·  Hello Sludgenaughts. We hope you are all doing well. We would like to announce our new drummer to the throne...Ryan Aliff!!!! Welcome aboard the spaceship Negative Reaction! https://www.facebook.com/NegativeReaction/posts/1943096882466189 I talk to Kenny Bones regularly over the phone and he told me that Ryan is extremely talented and very well-respected in West Virginia (which is where NR are located now).  Looking forward to where they go from here...

STINKY HUMANS ABUSE TO SUBSIST is the name of a sludge band from Beijing, China.  Go figure... Anyhow, it just sounds a lot like Eyehategod to me.  I'm mainly posting this because of the name and I know there are people out there who can't get enough of EHG.  And I wanted to update the blog with something despite being in pain from a severe ankle sprain three weeks ago. https://stinkyhumansabusetosubsist.bandcamp.com/album/plight  ***NSFW artwork on page*** You can also  listen on Spotify . Here's the article  where I read about them .

This was by far the best year for sludge music I've seen in awhile.  Never heard so many solid releases in the genre from so many different places!!!   I think sludge might be developing into something with a worldwide scene of its own, rather than merely being considered a "subset" of doom metal, with a strong presence in NOLA and a handful of bands in other places.  Even my home state of Ohio (and the city of Cincinnati, where I live) has exploded with good sludge bands in recent years.  In Cincinnati, for a long time, we used to only have BENEATH OBLIVION .  But GAPING MAW and FLESH MOTHER emerged a few years ago and both have grown in their sound considerably... (this is the default image for a video of part of their set at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn, NY in 2017 - it was shot by Max Volume Silence ) FLESH MOTHER released an incredible   two-song EP two years ago and last year, put out an impressive full-length  that was mastered by ...

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Sad news.  I was a huge fan and I'm really gonna miss them.  Buy up what's left before it's gone, I guess!!! BTP RIP </3

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...