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The Best Sludge / Stoner Metal Album
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Ancestors have really outdone themselves. By stitching together a careful blend of doomy atmosphere with a drive of a stoner rock, mixing it in with prog and adding a psychedelic touch, they have achieved stellar heights with this release. It's crushing, it's beautiful, and it's gripping. In Dream and Time really is one of the best releases of the past year. If you haven't heard it, try "On The Wind" for a start.
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A kaleidoscopic astral journey of epic proportions, Light Space Riders Black Space Riders have been tripping on shrooms from beginning to end as they suck you into their black hole of fuzz, psychedelia and groove.
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Nothing fancy here. The band that put the POWAH! in power trio, High On Fire, are back with another pummeling album featuring dalekian vocals, pounding drums, pummeling guitar and bass riffs, and Matt Pike's frenetic solos. The sonic equivalent of a bar room brawl.
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Pushing itself through the competition is one of the filthiest album of the year. Pervertor is a blend of all that can give you the urge to clean yourself with steel wool yet you'll still find pleasure in sickness: Blackened sludge with a strong sense of groove, spiced with a mechanic and calculated scorn aimed directly at you through the juggernaut drumming, bludgeoning hypnotic riffs and extremely harsh vocals.
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A creepy concoction of fuzzed out blackened doomsludge with gravel throated vocals that burns like gargling sulfuric acid. An eerie album, the stuff of which nightmares are spawned.
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Legendary British stoner doomers are becoming more and more upbeat with each passing record. A Eulogy For The Damned showcases the band on a spiritual high and at air-fisting best with an album of groovy, rock-out numbers guaranteed to please and energize.
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Stoner sludge a la blues, doom, and rough southern rock leanings? Yes please. The American south has had no shortage of amazing sludge in the last several years and Royal Thunder may be some of the finest yet. On top of solid and gritty instrumentation are the impassioned wails of possibly the best female vocalist of 2012. Listen and see what all the fuss is about.
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Sludgy thunderpop which features a mix of slower, expansive tracks with little 60 second ditties crammed with more energy than an elementary school set loose upon Disneyland after consuming a box of chocolate frosted sugar bombs each. Ear candy.
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An ugly, raw, dirty mix of doom, sludge, and thrash. This album is an affront to all things beautiful and decent, thus a perfect sonic slab to jam to while doing whatever vile things you bastards do in your parents' basement.
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Although the two Ufomammut albums released in the past year are preferably viewed as a whole, we think this half of the opus is better. It was a close match in the selection process but this one won us over. We think it'll win you over too. Is sledgehammer crushing? Well, this one'll leave you utterly devastated.
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