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BENEATH OBLIVION  self-titled (RED/WHITE SWIRL VINYL)  10" VINYL   (Mylene Sheath)   13.98


The crusty behemoth sludge of Beneath Oblivion gets a gorgeous vinyl treatment with this limited edition 10" from Mylene Sheath, which features two epic sludgefeasts on creamy red/white swirled vinyl in a limited edition of 400 copies, packaged in a thick jacket with a two sided full color insert.

The first side features the song "One Year Of Deprivation", a tar-coated lament that opens in a haze of feeedback and martial drums as a massive droning riff enters alongside warped screeching vocals from both the guitarist and the bassist, overlapping with one another in a hideous vomit frenzy as they recite a drawn out hate letter in tandem. Later, though, the band shifts into a long middle passage of twangy, discordant strum that sounds a really wasted Across Tundras jam, the heavy countrified guitar joined by some cool meandering bass playing while the drummer holds it down with a laid back shuffle - then it's back into the filth again for the last third as the band whips up a violent churning Buzzoven-like dirge.

"No Man Or Deity" drags the B side down into a dank hole with the gooey rivulets of downtuned guitar rumble that open the track, black clots of feedback and amplifier grime oozing across a hypnotic tribal beat, the band slowly building a hypnotic circular jam while the guitar builds in strength and volume, until they finally burst forth into a massive tribal-doom crush, waves of rolling toms pounding beneath the gruesome sludge riffage and snarling vocals. The sound is thick and toxic, again channeling that classic Buzzoven sound into a hateful drone ritual and shifting between slow, doomy riffing and faster pummeling rhythms up to the end when the song dissolves into a wash of blackened murky noise. If you like your sludgecore really negative and fucked up, Beneath Oblivion deliver. Both of these songs are crushing, crusty blats of hate-filled sludge that fits right next to Buried At Sea, Grief, Rwake, Buzzoven, Warhorse, and Eyehategod.