The fifth full-length from this sludge project finds a nasty wall of downtuned rumbling behind tortured screams that sound like the person uttering them is more intent on losing their mind than adhering to the bounds of songwriting. Pehrpas thos will change as things move forward, but what I am hearing on the first track is someone who has created a dense heavy sound, that is impressive due to it's sheer heaviness, but listening to an entire album of this is more of an endurence test since nothing hooks you in to make you want to hear this again.
How many times have you worked up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and just had an overdriven chug in your head? If it has ever happened, chances are it occurs less than some song you happened to hear in line at the grocery store, and now it's stuck in your head. I'm not saying that heavy music isn't catchy; it can be and should be. In fact, I often find myself getting random Deicide songs stuck in my head. There are some touches of black metal on this album and it accelerate things to fell like they are falling into a soul sucking chasm in the abyss, which is an appealing enough sonic picture to paint. "Gravis" finds things going in a more dismal direction as the vocals now seem to be screaming from a more deliberate place of suffering. Though more atmosphere surfaces to break things up from the relentless pounding
There is a raw, almost noisy element to what is going on. I think this is what pushes this album into being sludge, as the rawness is more of a punk thing; it's angry about the torment being inflicted rather than romanticizing it. As doom mourns the loss of a life less tormented. You get more of a breather from the instrumental 'Factum" that sounds more like Low screwing around at soundcheck. There is a more mournful melody floating under the distortion on "Mortem". We are three and a half minutes into the last song before it comes together into a song. The bass line walks out this slow feedback-slathered rumble. I will give this album an 8, as it was created intended for a specific audience who will dig this, it is, after all, heavy as hell. Of course, Sentient Ruin is releasing this album as it's a perfect picture of their wheelhouse.
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