The latest from cult doom metal label Game Two is a new spit 7" of hard-luck tales featuring Colorado sludge crawlers Deer Creek on one side and Obsessed-worshipping old school doom metallers Leather Nun America on the other, both of whom have been mucking around in the doom underground for the past decade.

Deer Creek's "Light Of The Blessed Sun" is in the same mangy vein as the music on their splits with Church Of Misery and Rawradarwar, a lurching chugfest of chunky Sabbathian riffs and slowed-down hardcore aggression, the simple but catchy riffs seemingly encased in volcanic rock. The music has that same ratty intensity and distorted ugliness as early Sour Vein, but Paul Vismara's howling voice gives this a bit of an old-school doom feel. Ug-ly.

Cali trio Leather Nun America drag their heels for "Rat City", a slithering, soulful slab of molten boogie-metal that blends in some swirling Hammond organ sounds into their hypnotic Sleep-like riffage. It could just be me, but this feels a lot groovier than their older stuff on Psychedoomelic, with a little bit of a Clutch vibe creeping through in the first half of the song. When it picks up speed into a stomping gallop for the latter half, though, it's pure classic heavy metal, Southern-tinged leads and rambunctious drumming. Good stuff; fans of The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Pentagram and Internal Void would definitely dig these guys.

Limited to five hundred copies.