Metal Injection

After a killer slate last week this Tuesday brings things back down to Earth… volume-wise there is plenty to sort through, but the highlights are a little fewer and further between.

San Antonio's own blackened death merchants, HOD, are currently streaming a track from their new demo, The Uncreated, on Decibel Magazine's website. The track is titled "When The Ghouls Feed" and it sounds like what you would expect from a band that includes this quote in their press release:

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Metal used to be a boy’s club… pioneered by sweaty, shirtless dudes in leather pants blasting out the world’s loudest and heaviest incarnation of rock ‘n’ roll for other sweaty, shirtless dudes in the pit. Nothing wrong with that! But a new type of pioneer has been creeping up into metal’s consciousness for well over [...]

As prolific as Japanese drone merchants Boris have been on the audio front over the past decade-plus, it's remarkable that 2011 will see their first ever live DVD release in the US. But so it is. On January 18 Southern Lord will issue Live in Japan, a chronicle of their tour closing set at Daikanyama [...]

Instead of posting a half dozen bite-size stories about the latest news from the doom/sludge underground, I decided to compile it all into one big nasty ball o'resin and load y'all up with enough album updates, tour dates, and general sludgefuckery to BLOW. YOUR. FUCKING. MINDS. Load up the bong, and read on… Cult sludge [...]