EP REVIEW: Slimelord – The Delta Death Sirens

Here I review the brand new EP from a brand new band called SLIMELORD. It is always a priveledge to be a part of a bands inception, thus I wish to review their debut EP. A band I may have missed out on entirely if Sublime Terror Promotions had not announced them as opener for the London show of Tomb Mold / Ritual Necromancy / Of Feather And Bone. So without further delay, let’s get stuck into some crushing UK Death-Doom!

1. Insectoid – The Summoning opens with eerie ambience that has a gorgeous 80s Horror sound to it while remaining tranquil but surely the peaceful synths shall not last long, for judging by the art, some putridity of epic proportions is incoming. This introduction piece was stunningly done and really set the mood well for the album. They keep it short and to the point but without sacrificing atmosphere. Unnerving yet blissful, great work.
2. Demon’s Blood (Introduction) / Horrible Bog delivers us into morbidity with feedback followed by churning doomy chords and intimidating growls, building a foreboding tension flawlessly. The drums count themselves in before we descend into a slow-tempo crawl through sewer-dwelling guttural riff work with raunchily cutting bass lines and searing lead dissonance. The track breaks apart to make discomforting atmospherics with feedback and sludgy vocal snarls, truly unpleasant sounds being generated before surging guitars drone in with more doomy grooves. The thunderous glow of this rapturing Death Metal is crushing with plenty of odious musicianship to concoct a hellishly putrid soundscape. Rotten guitars, bellowing drums and macabre snarls send themselves into frenzy with a raw production tying the brutality together beautifully. This opening track was an obliterating slab of all that is decomposing and nasty. Fabulous.
3. Amphibia follows up with more grisly riffing, this time with a more crunchy sound that blisters in with skull-fragmenting lead work, soaring through realms of otherworldly discordance and utter contemptuous ferocity. The primitive pounding is soon joined by eerie vocals that haunt us with the dungeon-dwelling instrumentals keeping a consistent tooth-grinding rhythm that is so damn brutal. I am really glad of the way the bass finds its way through the cavernous guitar and drums to truly create a wall of foreboding gruesomeness with pinch harmonic so piercing that you truly feel violated. Doomy, eerie and utterly decimating, this song delivers another permanently damaging slice of cutting Death Metal that cannot be flawed due to its monstrously heavy mix of skilful musicianship and patient songwriting. Wonderful.
4. The Delta Death Sirens sadly brings in the ending of the EP which leaves me demanding a full length or follow up from the band ASAP. Slowly burning in with atmospheric guitar riffs, the piece certainly is going to deliver one final piece of devastation. Cavernous layers of tormenting vocals, barbarically hammered drums and savage chainsaw guitars take us through a convulsive path of vomiting dissonance that leaves the body perturbed by the grotesque assaults of the maniacally doomy grooves and pounding Death Metal hits. A well spaced and grimly picturesque track that truly conjures up swampy visions and hell-scapes with its doomy morbidity that is beautifully contrasted by gorgeously ferocious and idiotically heavy high-octane grinding assaults of totally hideous warfare. Brilliant.

This EP is crushing, even take out the fact that it is a debut, the band deliver some of the most decimating and intense blows with a savage performance of old school sounding Death-Doom Metal putridity with a musical excellence and dissonance that leaves you unnerved and violated by totally demonic dragging grooves. A meaty slab of must listen for all the Death Metal maniacs who like slow dragging music filled with tension. -8/10