TRACK PREMIERE: the underground's newest doom behemoths Cowardice unveil "The Tearing Down"

Cowardice is a 5 piece doom/sludge based in Northern New Jersey.  The members are collectively in active bands including Black Urn, Null & Void, Sunrot, Thera Roya, Sentient Horror, Worthless, Intertia.  The band was formed late spring 2016 and recorded their first record summer 2016 with Brian Brody in Summit, NJ.  Today at The Sludgelord, we can exclusively debut the first track 'The Tearing Down', from the forthcoming album "Without Condolence”, to be released 29/12/2016 via their bandcamp page here.  Given the pedigree of the bands mentioned, you know this is gonna crush.  Check it out below. 

Band info: facebook

The Sludgelord Song Premiere - "Spindle of Spines" by Black Urn

By: Aaron Pickford

A little under a year ago, today’s featured artist Black Urn, first appeared on The Sludgelord, their self titled demo immediately enamoured  us to their downtrodden blend of blackened sludge/doom, with pitch black vocals and an oppressive guitar tone, Black Urn furthered strengthened the already thriving Philly scene.  Fast forward then to the present and Black Urn have returned from the pits of hell, and are set to unleash another hulking mass of contempt upon us, with the June 10^th release of their new EP “The Pangs of our Covenant”

Today at The Sludgelord, we present the first taste of Black Urn’s new EP and “11m.57s” of blacker than black sludge doom, behold and suffocate in a “Spindle of Spines” and remember in the battle of sludge vs evil....sludge always wins

“The Pangs of our Covenant” will be available for free here from Friday June 10th, 2016 and if you can’t wait that long their debut demo is here too, as a name your price download.  

 “The Pangs of our Covenant” track listing:

1. Bushmaster

2. Spindle of Spines

3. Starved by Faith

4. 40 Devils

Band info: facebook || band camp

Black Urn - S/T (EP Review)

Album Type: EP

Date Released: June 09^th 2015

Label: Self Released

Black Urn – S/T - Track Listing:

1.Teat of the Baphomet 12:02

2.Four Cornered Room 00:27

3.Black Urn 01:06

4.Empty Handed Lord 02:56

5.Taxidermis 10:10

6.Spore Huffer 03:13

Members:

guitar: Ryan Manley

guitar: Jordan Pierce

drums: Tim Lewis

bass: Alex Onderdonk

vox: John Jones

Review:

Black Urn are a Blackened Sludge/Doom/Grind Band that I recently stumbled across. They intrigued me right from the very start as their debut S/T EP is almost 30 minutes of blackened sludge metal encrusted with Doom, Blues and a splattering of Grind. The vocals are pitch black and feel they were forged in hell though the riffs feel they were created in the Holiest of Churches – The Church of BLACK SABBATH.

Opening track – Teat of The Baphomet – is a strange hybrid of Sabbath based down-tempo riffs and sinister death based growls. This is music that Satan himself will be listening to over and over again. And it's a fucking bruising encounter that lasts 12 minutes or so. This song has slow-paced despairing riffs with enough power to drive you to madness and it's a vibe you're more than truly grateful for. It has a depressing blues vibe as Black Urn wisely stay in the darkness and make you feel part of this violent world.

Black Urn then change into grindcore homicidal maniacs with the next few tracks as second track – Four Cornered Room – is a 28 second blast of intense fast paced grindcore beats. Before the third track – Black Urn – slightly longer splices grindcore violent riffs with down-tempo riffs from the opening track for an intriguing style of Doom/Grind

vibes.

Fourth track – Empty Handed Lord – is back to the heavier rhythms of the opening song as Black Urn have more time to play and impress you with. The track has some superb fast-paced riffs towards the end of the song. Lead vocalist – John – is impressive once again channelling all that pissed off fury. Black Urn return to epic territory with the stand-out song from the EP – Taxidermis – this is more of a companion piece to Teat of The Baphomet. As it carries on the same demonic style of Doom/Blues/Sludge/Grind worship to test your patience with.

Finally but by no means least is – Spore Huffer – that closes the EP on a mighty depressing high. This is a very bass heavy affair with pounding riffs adding real substance to the atmosphere. Black Urn have created a stunning, dark and depressing EP for all you doom and gloom maniacs to check out. Check it out. If you're feeling brave enough!!!

Words by Steve Howe

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