SEA OF BONES The Earth Wants Us Dead 3LP crushing ultra-sludge neurosis warhorse

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SEA OF BONES The Earth Wants Us Dead 3 x LP

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(Gilead Media)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    Had my skull flattened by this one, something that turned out to be much darker, much more oppressive, and much more experimental than I'd expected. First released by the band themselves and now reissued on vinyl by Gilead Media, Earth is the second album from this Connecticut band, and it's epic, sprawling out for nearly an hour and a half. They need the time, too; Sea Of Bones moves through these massive longform sludge-sagas that unfurl some of the heaviest downtuned power-chug I've heard in ages.
    As soon as the album starts, these guys are rolling over you with grueling slow-motion riffage and strained, monstrous screaming, with a strange, almost industrial rumble seeming to inhabit the background of the band's mix, alongside copious amounts of droning feedback. That might be a familiar combination of sounds, but there's something about how Sea Of Bones welds it all together that turns this into something utterly soul-crushing. They also have a flair for spacey guitar effects and surges of howling amplifier noise that swell up between most of the songs, heavy doses of noise that add a black lysergic vibe to this stuff. And the lurching off-kilter fury of songs like "Black Arm" brings an additional corrosive edge to the album, with churning dissonant blasts of hateful heaviness that actually feels like classic noise rock being slowly frozen in carbonite. That level of unbridled rage is one of the key strengths of Earth's misanthropic, droning power, exuded in the utter savageness of the vocals as they spit 'em out contemptuously over the vast hypnotic riffage, while the powerful drumming surges out of the agonizingly crawling tempos.
    The reverb-shrouded guitars have a distant quality, and sometimes drift into long stretches of eerie, twangy instrumental ambience, like the mournful slowcore of "Beneath The Earth", or passages of kosmische synth glimmering like black starlight over sinister guitar lines and tribal rhythms on "The Bridge", while that boiling aggression gives way to a sense of abject resignation that emanates from the desolate noise-drenched dirge of "Failure Of Light". All of this is a precursor to the titanic title track that closes the album, though, a forty-minute wash of kosmische synth and celestial electronics that swirl and eddy over the drummer's slow, almost funerary drumbeat, threatening to eventually build into something explosive but in fact always hanging at the edge of release, ultimately trailing off into the abyss in its finality; it's less of an outro piece and more a monstrous sigh of resignation. Like most current bands in this vein, you can catch a whiff of Neurosis's apocalyptic downer-power in here, but Sea Of Bones definitely held my interest throughout this massive triple-LP set with what ended up being a much more tortured, dread-filled take on that oft-copied sound. If you're prone to having your skull bulldozed by the heaviest, most negatory sludge you can find, this band is one to follow. Comes in a massive double gatefold package, limited to five hundred copies and including a download code.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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