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B.SON  Black Shape Of Nexus  CD   (Vendetta)   17.98
Black Shape Of Nexus IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Our pals at Vendetta clued us in to these German sludgecreeps earlier this year, and thank the goat for that...as soon as I heard 'em, I was having my ass kicked in all manner of subsonic ways by the magma-metal plod that these cats weld. They had an LP that came out previously that I wasn't able to get my hands on, but this disc from Vendetta solves that problem by including all of the tracks from the selfm titled LP plus the vinyl onlysplit that Black Shape Of Nexus did with Crowskin awhile back.

You could call the music of Black Shape Of Nexus doom, or sludge, or slo-mo earthcrust razing deathdirge or whatever, it's super slow and insanely heavy, with huge sickening riffs lurching along in slow motion grooves, and it's those grooves that set this apart from alot of the other extreme slo-mo heaviness that I've been listening to lately like Trees, Khlyst, Corrupted, etc. Black Shape are as heavy as any of those bands, sure, but instead of merely droning on feedback-drenched chords for eons, these guys play some real massive riffs that lumber and swing, even though they've got all of their guitars tuned to a bowel-loosening B flat and their typical rate of passage is somewhere around 10bpm. These mighty riffs are timestretched into crusty, massive, vaguely Sabbathian grooves, powered by buzzing chestrattling basslines, pummeling stroked-out jackhammer drums, singer Malte Seidel and his hideously scarred crazed-ape roars that sound like they are being played back on a vinyl record that somebody is dragging their finger on, and awesome clean guitar chords that are layered across the lumbering doomcore and which add a windswept rock ambience to the songs. Sometimes Black Sun pull it all back and groove on passages of laid back strum and subdued percussion, intricate post-rock jangle and droning amp-roar ambience, but these parts are only brief lulls in the grinding blackened sludge destruction that bulldozes across the five untitled tracks. Again, MASSIVE, like Corrupted if they had some mathy "swing" to their ultradoom, a crushing, grinding propulsive sludge metal assault that's peppered with bits of arty ambience and some really cool nuanced guitar textures. Mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate/OLD/Khylst). Recommended for sure. And the packaging for this disc is top notch: the CD comes in a golden metal box that opens to reveal the disc attached to the case on a metal hub and a thick cardstock four-panel insert with strange sepia-toned abstract artwork and band photos.


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