It's been awhile since Life Is Abuse came out with anything new, but here we've got FOUR new releases from 'em, and it looks like the label

has gotten even more prog-crazy than ever, with an amazing vinyl only album of prog-infected powerviolence from Lords Of Light, the

Magma-meets-Asbestosdeath-meets-Mahavishnu Orchestra sludgepunk prog of Human Anomaly (featuring members of Noothgrush!), a crucial

DVD from German ska-grind ensemble and C-Blast faves Le Scrawl and this, a debut EP from Oakland's Drain The Sky, a psychedelic slow-core

sludge band featuring Carl Auge from His Hero Is Gone !

The band has only been around since 2005 but this self-titled disc shows that they've already created a masterful blend of atmospheric doom

and moody rock, with four songs of sludgy apocalyptic dirge and meandering post-rock instrumentals, equal parts Dystopia and Asbestosdeath and

melancholy psychedelia, crushingly heavy stuff with three singers howling in tandem a la Neurosis and creepy atonal guitar lines from guitarist

George Wunderlich. The first three songs are slow and grim but the final song "Image Of A Wall" has the band suddenyl blasting off into an

anthemic blast of speedy hardcore thrash. Sweet. Like the Human Anomaly disc, this is a CD-R but you can barely tell, as Life Is Abuse gave

this a great offset-printed packaging job and it has great artwork from Auge depicting his visions of urban isolation. Limited edition of 500

copies.