![]() ![]() Also the shipping date is tentative because of the huge mess at the vinyl plants around the world and it's possible that the LPs will be shipped out a bit later, depending on the backlog at the pressing plants. Please bear in mind that these colours are for representational purpose only and the actual products may differ. The thick gatefold sleeves have a subtle metallic effect all over and there's even spot UV lamination done on parts of the layout. There are three unique colour variants, with each one of them being strictly limited to 100 nos. These are high quality LPs that are imported from the best plants in Europe. I also pulled Lesley Crowther's hair The rest is just rumour.***Please bear in mind that the LPs have been massively delayed by the plant but will be shipped out as soon as they come in!*** I once got poked in the eye by Lee Dorrian, and Fast Eddie Clarke told me he was still great. I live in a rural idyll, and so I don't get to gigs all that often, and thus you can always find me at Bloodstock clutching a flagon of rot-gut cider and smelling like a recently exhumed corpse, making the most of seeing a) other metal fans and b) metal bands. I started reviewing music when Doug McClure was still trying to find the Land That Time Forgot, and in that time I have single handedly listened to every album ever released from Russia and the Baltic States. I spent my teenage years obsessing about thrash metal, before obsessing about all metal from that point onwards until now. My dad was always playing Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and AC/DC, so you can probably blame whatever crap score I have just awarded your terrible demo band indirectly to him. I've been a metal fan since before I can remember anything else, more or less. Hunt it out, pop it on and cause panic with your neighbours. Listen to this to feel something new, to experience a band that are trying to take your listening to the limit – and really, isn’t that a fair proportion of why we all got into the extreme side of music in the first place?Ī fantastic release. It’s genuinely horrific, unhinged and effectively a horror movie in audio form. So, having called this feel-bad music, and espoused just how terrifyingly heavy it is, why on earth would you listen to it? Well, because I have listened to a lot of death-doom and sludge over the years, and Lurk have really got me excited. The discordant, warped twists of “Blood Scourge” is almost sickeningly psychotic. Calling this “Sludge” doesn’t do it justice this is very much grounded in the spirit of horrible death-doom metal, but taken to almost ludicrous extremes. Let me put it this way for you – this is an album that sounds like every ultra-heavy breakdown you’ve ever heard, but the whole track is the breakdown, you’re listening to it as it gets distorted through the gravity crushing heaviness of a black hole, and you’re wearing a granite helmet. You may be a more modern listener, who has come to the extreme side of things through one of those -core bands, and you know what? That’s ok. It’s slow – oh so slow, and it’s deeply down-tuned, cavernous in the amount of reverb and positively anti-social in its delivery. That’s ok, there’s enough of that kind of stuff about if you want it. Toward the end of the track, the music dares – dares I tell you – to break out into a lead-booted trot, but be certain – it’s trotting out to find you and stomp you into the dirt. Their vocals are so heavy that I thought that the world was imploding whilst I listened to it. Seriously, this stuff makes Conan sound like Olivia Newton John. Opener “Ashlands” is the sound of a person dragging themselves across broken glass. If Beavis and Butthead famously commented that Crowbar was workout music for fat people, Lurk are the gym soundtrack to the infernally obese. This is the first band in many a year that I’ve seen put out branded sweat pants!Īll of which brings me onto this: just who on earth is going to be wearing sweat pants to Lurk? Let me tell you, the prospect of doing exercise to this leaden, torturous and necrotic hike through a psychotic audio hell-scape is a horror-movie pitch all of its own. I will also mention this – in the press pack that Transcending Obscurity puts out, it’s clear that they have their merch game on point. I confess that I hadn’t heard of Lurk before, who are a four-piece Finnish crew who appear to like all things slow, filthy and heavy. I always get a little giddy when I get a release from Transcending Obscurity, mostly because owner Kunal has got one of the best ears in extreme metal when it comes to signing exciting bands. ![]()
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