The Angelic Process - Weighing souls with sand

    


     This is by no means a new album or anything haha, but it's easily one of my favorites... And it's stood the test of time. There seems to be a lack of mention of this band and album anywhere, except for the surplus of youtube videos of their songs (fucking eh, saves me time heh), they really need more reviews of their amazing music. I don't even know how to describe this album, it's like post-industrial drone sludge. It's so incredibly amazing, it's like being in one of those old fashioned "Egyptian" booby trapped rooms where the walls close in, but the walls are made of staticy sound and the spikes that impale your vital organs are pounding drums. I hear people compare this to Nadja a lot but i just don't see it, I've listened to a lot of Nadja, and the only one it even slightly touches upon is "touched", but even then this album is miles away, with a completely unique and demolishing sound of its own.

     The album starts off with soft rolling ambiance, followed by some nice repetitive drumming... for about 2 minutes... Then SLAM. Downtuned dirty as fuck guitars with a tone I can't even begin to describe, the wall of sound this band creates is absolutely unexplainable using English, or even human words. I think it might be cause of his use of bows on guitars and other avant garde practices, or because he's an absolute musical genius, but either way you're crushed. No bones remaining. The vocals have this distortion where you can comprehend his words to a degree, it sounds like he's saying things, but it's hard to tell in what language. I'm guessing it's English, prove me wrong. The songs follow this pattern that somehow NEVER gets old, of starting off with ambient droning guitar, then either chugging palm mutes with tom pounding or distorted post-rock-esque riffs with Neurosis style pounding... Then it alternates. It's somehow always surprises me.
  
     Songs of noteworthiness on this album would be "Million year summer" and "We all die laughing". There's one part in "We all die laughing"  that tingles my spine and is near tear jerking for an unknown reason. Luckily it's on youtube so that saves me time. If you like strangely unsettling music, this is for you, if you like solid beautiful music, this is for you, if you like crushing down tempo music, this is for you. If you like them all, you are me or my friend, and if you're the latter I want my money you owe me you fuck. Download this album, listen to it MAX volume, and then follow my blog, you know you want to. Absolute 10 out of 10.

    Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?3ba6z0fwky1kmk5
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hgby3owFbA

Crom - Hot Sumerian Nights

      Ah Crom's second full length. After hearing the first LP (The cocaine wars 1974-1989) spinning at a friends house, I fell in love with the corny Conanian powerviolence. Not much has changed in the presentation between the two, except the entire fucking genre. If you ever listened to the first one, it was all mathy stop and charge tempo changing cock dickery, never taking itself too seriously (at least that hasn't changed). For this one they decided to take the small portion of the debut that was sludge-ridden break downs, and make an entire album out of it. This album is primarily crushing chunky down tempo doom encrusted aural pleasure that I would expect from a band from the south, but with the great sound clips and cheesy music clips that I would expect from a band that takes its name from the Conan universe (This is the only one I know of). The album starts off with a pleasant sound clip that I can only explain as coughing up lungs from way too many drugs, then it dives right into a heavy riff that is immediately interrupted by a plethora of silly sounds and clips. The first real song on the album has almost the same tone as before, but the sound is undoubtedly different, the bands vocals are a little more organized and the music is a tad more structured (whether or not that that's a good thing is completely subjective, I enjoy it nevertheless) and instead of breaking down from fast hardcore crust like epilogues into sludge sections, the songs are sludge songs that gain tempo into almost speed metal / D-Beat ballads mid song, the Arnold clips are absolutely perfectly accompanying. Songs that I found stood above the rest are Zamora , King Osric (that sounds like a less organized His Hero is Gone at first listen) and Second Koming (which reminds me of a nwobhm song).

     Overall I highly enjoyed this album, it had the same vigour and style mashing intensity as the first and sure did not disappoint, I highly recommend downloading this as soon as possible and giving it a listen, it's one of those albums that is constantly getting played. The download to the album is linked below, be sure to followmy blog guyz ~cheers~*

http://www.mediafire.com/?dx3cjarwprsrltd

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