Review by Sandre the Giant
Following on from their disgustingly heavy and brilliant ‘The Delta Death Sirens’, which I reviewed here, Slimelord of deepest, darkest, foulest Yorkshire have vomited forth another EP of sludgey doomy death metal for us to drown in. It is out now through Dry Cough Records, Sewer Rot Records and Seed of Doom Records, and it is called ‘Moss Contamination’.
After the growling backwards incantations of ‘Noitanimatnoc Ssom Gnittor’ (use a mirror people), ‘The Day of the Triffids’ piles upon you huge crushing riffs and cavernous, distortion drenched reverb that will make you feel genuinely uneasy if you paly it too loud. This feels like you are trapped underground, walls collapsing while an intractable sludge creeps towards you. The sheer low end power is tectonic, while wailing guitar screams behind tortured, subhuman growls. ‘Puddle Dweller’ is clearly set in a puddle that suffers from intense sewage and possibly nuclear waste contamination, such is the utterly monstrous tones and earth shaking music being uttered forth. The creepy as hell interlude of ‘Epithelial Contaminant (Amphibious Dirge)’ just about prepares you for ‘Loretta’s Bane’, where the explosion of decrepit death metal riffs gradually collapses under its own weight into a doomy trudge through death infested sewers. It feels like it was recorded in the ‘Alien’ universe, somewhere in their waste system, such is the unearthly and uncomfortably slimy murk being regurgitated here. As it fades out with the ambient sounds of a swamp, marsh or other damp boggy spot, you’re left to contemplate what horrors you accidentally unleashed when you pressed play…
‘Moss Contamination’ has rocketed into my top records of this year list. Slimelord’s graps on how to make something so unutterably heavy and also so tonally uneasy and dissonant at the same time is staggering. I cannot stop listening to this, and hopefully neither ill you. This is what drowning in multidimensional algae must feel like. Horrifyingly brilliant.
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