| Grimpen Mire are one of the finest heavy bands in the U.K. right now. This is Sludge/Doom Metal in that itīs properly swampy and has tons of dissonance and screeching feedback, but these guys are from the "Sabbath home" of Birmingham and aim to hit you with the same bleak, grey life view that was so brilliantly captured on that opening toll of the first Black Sabbath album, although thereīs not a stoner riff, a groovy chorus or an "ooh yeah" anywhere to be heard here: this is entirely dense, negative Doom Metal. Taking the untouchable template of Winter and Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, and slowing things down a bit (though there are a few faster moments here) to the usual Grief or Eyehategod pace, Grimpen Mire is all about fulsome horror and existential nausea. Comes inside a thick PVC oversleeve. |
