Release Date: November 15th 2024. Record Label: Self Released. Format: DD
Stuck - Track Listing:
1.Cold 17:10
2.Stuck 14:03
3.Repel 20:56
Members
Guglielmo Allegro - Everything
Review
One Man Instrumental Doom/Sludge Metal wrecking crew Void Sinker return with their new album Stuck which is way heavier and more threatening than their last album Sunless. Taking a solemn Drone Metal attitude for the album that is set across three tracks running past the fifty minute mark. Void Sinker takes their time in exploring heavy volumes of Drone, Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal pastures.
The journey is quite slow paced at times with Guglielmo Allegro once again providing a masterclass of AMPLIFIER DISTORTED HEAVINESS and seedy GUITAR REVERB with a slow pounding bass only adding to nasty volume levels which has become a major part of Guglielmo’s work especially over the last couple of record he’s provided under the guise of Void Sinker.
If you’re a fan of Electric Wizard, CONAN, Slomatics and UFOMAMMUT then Stuck is perhaps Void Sinker’s most accessible record to date going by the dangerous FUZZED UP grooves contained within the excellent opening track of Cold.
The song COLD slowly builds up a heavy destructive rhythm where FEEDBACK is king and the instrumental attitude draws in bands such as SUNN 0))) and Bongripper. There’s a more caustic COSMIC vibe emitting from the airwaves with Void Sinker playing long drawn out notes and intense down-tuned passages. There’s riffs contained within COLD but their buried under a ton of FUCKED UP monolithic sounding movements which has an essence of Blackened Doom lurking in the background.
Second track Stuck adds a gloomy apocalyptic measure to the forefront of the heightened down-tuned grooves that slowly emits dangerous COSMIC energy to the masses. With the drumming becoming ever more present on this track that forges a constant battle with the sludgy guitars that brings a powerful and creative dynamic that’s very hard to describe.
Channelling the dangerous influence of SUNN 0))) once more, Void Sinker decides to add a slightly faster sound into the mix before venturing into a heavy industrial movement which allows the record to be considered one of COSMIC HORROR or perhaps a record with an unforgiving destructive nature yet again.
The final track of Repel sees Void Sinker experimenting with various Psychedelic measures on the later stages of the track which reminds me of the sound that the legendary UFOMAMMUT created with their landmark album EVE though this time is more slower and possibly stripped back. This track is the heaviest part of the album and perhaps the most riff-centric style of music that Guglielmo has ever delivered.
Stuck is another outstanding slice of underground Drone based mayhem from Void Sinker who once again delivers the goods with his own original style of ear-shattering and planet destroying based Doom, Drone, Sludge and Stoner Metal that leaves you wanting to hear more.
Words by Steve Howe
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