ninehertz

This appears to be a self-released split of doom and sludge from two up and coming bands from the European continent. There's only one track each, but this being doom there's still nearly 20 minutes combined to fill the cassette they're putting this out on.

God's Funeral are first up. They seem to have a grindcore level fondness for splits, a constant need for coupling - I first came across them on the other side of a release with Bocc, this one seemingly their third in a row since their last solo release back in early Covid days; they provide Terra de foc i pluja, which translates to Land of Fire and Rain. It's grand title is fitting as the song builds slowly, string accompanied instrumentation and the sounds of thunder for more than a third of the nine minute length, collapsing into funeral doom with truly guttural vocals. Then it all collides, the epic and the dour, an increase in tempo, a track of doom largesse that they pull off rather well.

We have been fans of Peine Kapital for a long time now, and they've peddled this filth ridden sound for many a year across several releases, and are no secret in European sludge for anyone digging even a little under the surface. Here, on Profil Bas, is more of the same - and I'm absolutely not complaining about that fact. This is sludge of the Grief school, or even akin to the mighty Moloch of Nottingham, slow, slower, slowest - screeching and reaching from the gutters, not with the aim of escape but to drag you down in there with them, depraved just as sludge should sound.

All round, this is a neat little two track combination of dark, dank doom from different shades of the sound and two bands on the move.