Charred, massive dirge-sludge pummel from Slovenia that only occasionally uses the dynamic post-rock trappings typical of most post-NEUROSIS outfits, and instead goes straight for an wickedly doomy, epic trudge rooted just as firmly in the radioactive soil of apocalyptic crustcore. In that sense, this is alot like earlier NEUROSIS, but a bit sludgier and dronier and more straightforward melodically, as ELODEA raise their monumental riffs towards the heavens and wrap them in mathy, melodic guitar lines and heavily layered, almost shoegazey guitars, sometimes speeding up into crushing midtempo parts, sometimes slowing down into syrupy stretches of haunted doom. The few times that ELODEA does move away from the chugging, oppressive heaviness, like in the "Kubernetes vs Qubernetes", they conjure up some really pretty shoegazer textures that almost sound like missing fragments of THE CURE's Disintegration trapped in a miasma of suffocating lava metal. A highlight of the album though is the title track "Cataclysmic", a melancholy guitar/electronics bliss out over the sounds of crashing surf that's dropped right in the middle of the disc. The songs are lengthy exercises averaging 8 minutes in length, with six tracks spread out over 44 minutes.