Well
this year is already off to a quick start and here we are with February 2019’s edition
of the THE SLUDGELORD’s “666 Pack Review”. It’s been a dreary winter so far but the
submissions have been quite the opposite.
Let’s see what arrived in THE SLUDGELORD’s inbox for this month. If you’re new to this, each and every month
we handpick 6 review submissions and critique them by only using 6 words, then
we rate them on a scale from 1 to 666! Check out our dreary/doom inspired rating
scale below:
1 – Die.
2 – No one will remember your band after
our review.
3 – Can you be average and
miserable? You just nailed it.
4 –
The power of your darkness compels us.
5 – Is there a thing such as happy gloom. If there is, that’s what this is all
about.
666 – THE SLUDGELORD bathes in tears of
melancholy despondency and has only the upmost sadness from this offering of despair.
Caveat: Even though the “666 Pack Review” is meant to offer humorous critique, there are no
safe spaces here and your gripes will only make you sound like a bellyacher. THE SLUDGELORD is a picky listener…and
doesn’t care what you think of his opinions….
1).
MoYan “Hypnic
Fall” (Strasbourg, France) Rating:
5
Here we go,
some instrumental depression.
2). Lost Relics “1st” (Denver, U.S.A.) Rating: 3
A rawer
version of Black Tusk.
3).
The Valley Ritual “Remembrance” (Orlando, U.S.A.) Rating: 4
Black Metal
Mastodon without Disneyworld influences
4). Mycelium “Disassemble Reconstruct” (London, U.K.) Rating: 3
Instrumental
Black Metal depression. Production lacks.
5).
Void Tripper
“Sabbath Worshipping Doom” (Fortaleza, Brazil) Rating: 2
The perennial
opening band right here…
6).
Seed of the Sorcerer, Womb of the Witch “Spell Book I: Ceridwen” (Denver,
U.S.A.) Rating: 666!
Guitar tone
alone worth the 666!
