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Release Date: April 04th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD
Descender - Tracklisting
Descender
Review
Cage The Ox are a Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metal band from the Highlands Of Scotland and are inspired by the sounds of MONOLORD, BONGZILLA, WEEDEATER and SLEEP. You can add a ton of other epic sounding LOW & SLOW based bands who deal in playing long drawn out FUZZ based grooves. Their new single Descender is quite bleak with it’s harsh vocals and post-metal based atmospherics and psychedelic imagery Cage The Ox conjure up within the song’s six minutes run time.
There is a stripped back LESS IS MORE sound that develops within the violent movements Cage The Ox slowly design and develop within the whole song though they still manage to find time to play classic Sludge/Stoner Metal instrumental solos along the way. There’s even moments of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal guitar shredding appearing within the final moments of the track which allows Cage The Ox to play other areas of Rock and Metal whilst still retaining their Sludge/Stoner Metal credentials that I’m hoping the band will develop even further on future releases.
Descender is a great way for Cage The Ox to introduce themselves. They’re not the finished article yet by any means but they have my full undivided attention with this great slice of fucked up heaviness which should cause some unpleasant moments of down-tuned aggression for folks brave enough to listen to the track.
Words by Steve Howe
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