ALBUM REVIEW: Ten Ton Slug bring the dark gods “Blood and Slime”

16th July 2018 admin

Ten Ton Slug come pounding in with a three track EP “Blood and Slime” that will just crush you under the sheer weight of sludge.

Opening track “Slug Grinder”, slowly brutally rolls over you like the Ten Ton Slug that they are with a bruising slow groove that will make you, confusingly, want to headbang in slow motion. The screaming guttural vocals just adds weight to the whole track. This is Black Sabbath slowed down and the visceral slow doom laden march through the six minutes and 52 seconds will still make you smile. The solos and riffs are perfectly matched as the drums just thunder through the whole piece. Very satisfying indeed.

Up next is “Matriarch of Slime” which just chunders along with its own brutality. Seriously heavy and seriously enjoyable. The mixture of low growling vocals and the rasped screaming leaves you wondering if they are able to talk to anyone after singing this song. It is primordial is delivery, like wading through a dark and dangerous tree infested swamp that just wants to swallow you whole. Again the solo piece fits snugly into the whole feeling of the track as the drums march ever onward sometimes slow and sometimes fast but all in unison with the whole atmosphere. It is seven and a half minutes of just superb sludge metal.

Finally comes “Siege”, at 10 minutes, this behemoth of a track is the one that goes to war on your senses. Heavy, vicious, primitive and uncompromising as heavy and destructive as a super radioactive Godzilla (or indeed a gigantic radioactive ten ton slug). Again the slow sludgy nature of the track just wants to beat you to death with a spoon and it won’t let up until you’re dead. It just gives an incredible feeling of pestilence, decay, death and nihilism throughout. Its a perfect final track that rounds up the whole whole EP neatly.

Overall the EP is full of pure sludge metal, that may not be everybody’s cup of tea (or mug of coffee) but there is something mystically Formorian about this slow grinding album and how Ten Ton Slug deliver it up for you. Its like one of those iconic B-Movies that sets up a whole genre and will be eternally loved. Well put together and infused with heavy cannibalistic riffs, brutal drums, preternatural vocals, this is an album you need to have in your collection. Even better is that they are seriously cheap through Bandcamp. Well worth every penny ploughed into the interwebs to obtain this grotesque beauty of a beast.

<a href="http://tentonslug.bandcamp.com/album/blood-and-slime-ep">‘Blood and Slime’ EP by Ten Ton Slug</a>A perfect album for a bit of dark, horrific, mutant infested and doom laden roleplaying in the Old World of Warhammer (especially now as Cubicle 7 have produced WHFRP 4^th edition). Hmmmm, this could be the album of the year for Grandfather Nurgle alright.

Based in Galway and originally from the depths of Connemara in the west of Ireland, Ten Ton Slug has ingested five humans and leaves a trail of groove-laden sludge metal in its wake.

Ten Ton Slug plays riff-laden sludge from Galway in the West of Ireland and has recently supported Black Label Society, Crowbar, Jinjer, Planet of Zeus and notable underground bands across the UK and Ireland. Alongside playing at Bloodstock 2016 and embarking on a number of tours across the British Isles, the band are about to make their European debut at MetalDays 2018.

Two studio releases and one live EP in the last 3 years have garnered excellent reviews from critics and a new release is in the works at the moment.

This summer the Slug plays Amplified Festival in the UK, MetalDays in Slovenia, supports Conan for 2 dates in Ireland and headlines ‘Crypt of the Riff 2’ in Belfast. The band are currently taking bookings for 2019, with Hammerfest in Wales already confirmed for March.

The Slug is hungry.
The Slug shows no mercy.

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