It seems that Game Two only comes out with a new release about once a year or so, but when they do, it's always a crushing dose of sludgy doom metal

goodness. This vinyl-only release joins those serial killer obsessed psychedelic doomlords Church Of Misery with the warped sludgecore of Denver's Deer Creek

for an excellent split. Church Of Misery belt out one of their greatest songs ever, a side-long, 17 minute jam called "The Golden Dawn" that begins with the

band dialing in a recording of a Aleister Crowley speech and then jamming a killer bluesy Sabbathian riff over it for the entire duration of the song,

accompanied by extended acid guitar freakout, layers of droning feedback and trippy electronic echo effects, and burly effects-warped vocals. A macabre

psych-sludgecore epic, and one the most sinister, spaced-out jams ever from these guys. Imagine an Acid Mothers Temple/Warhorse collab and you'll have an

idea. Is this the first song of theirs that's not explicitly about a serial killer?

Denver's Deer Creek has the other side, and features Game Two label boss and Iron Kind member Conan Hultgren on guitar and vocals. Where COM's side is

unbridled lysergic heaviness, Deer Creek unleash three tracks of bleak, dirty-sounding sludgecore with more of a bleak Hardcore vibe; the guitar has a weird,

gnarly tone, Conan's vocals are strange combination of crusty, torn-throat growls and Pentagram-esque singing, and the songs often burst into fast paced,

crusty pummel that makes me think of Buzzoven, or a more hardcore Eyehategod, mixed with elements of old school doom metal. �The Gateway Was Broken� and

�Lightening Rod� are two original tracks that have some surprisingly catchy moments, and the ultraskuzzy "Something So Heavy" is weird, catchy combination of

Nirvana's "Something In The Way" and The Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", mutated into a bruising 5mph ooze of glacial sludgecrust. Awesome!

In a limited edition of 1,000 copies on thick vinyl, with cool original artwork by Paul Vismara.