From the city of the popes, Avignon, this is MUDBATH with their 1st ep "Red Desert Orgy", another solid newcomer in the French Sludge scene, more and more active but still looking for some leader...
I don't know what's exactly their reflexion behind this, maybe just as a precaution, but these past months new French Sludge bands like to materialize their 1st recording through eps rather than full-length (debut) album (think about Crown, Valve, Verdun...) ; MUDBATH adheres to this rule... with success !!! just 3 songs, but about 22 minutes which are fairly enough to size up their promising potencial.
Fat, raw and heady, the music of this young quintet takes influences in a couple of wellknown bands like E.W. and KYLESA but also mainly in a very underground Swedish Sludge band that some of you may know - in the name of GLOOMY SUNDAY who released a totally underrated album called "Beyond Good and Evil" about 5 years ago... maybe not the sexiest reference you would expect but a guarantee of something rather different from your usual piece of Sludge/Doom ! This implies some HC overtones not just through harsh vocals, but also with a rather straight and corrosive approach. The SLUDGE caracters consist more logically in some alternatively blackened and weedy heaviness, heady wizardian type of riffing
and groovy soloing, which is perfect for me !!!
The wicked vocals increase the impression of brutality, whereas all three songs are based on crushing mid-tempos; this is not a rush to hyperviolence though it could easily grind ears of trendy wimps but more of an accompaniement in their gloomy and tortured realm which I encourage you to join quickly... Taste the MUDBATH, it has lots of recommandable virtues for your mental health ;)
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