Release Date: May 01st 2025. Record Label: Riff Dealers. Formats: DD
LIVE! - Tracklisting
Sludge Dredd
Whisky Robot Dance
Over9000
Running On The Roof
5
Blueprint
Dark Materials
Members:
Igor Shaminsky – bass guitar
Dmitry Vashkov – drums, synthesizers
Review
Live! is the debut album from Instrumental Sludge/Doom/Stoner Metallers Doūsk who are primarily a Drums and Bass duo who specialize in LOW & SLOW and HEAVILY DISTORTED grooves with a mighty raw and aggressive sound. The album was recorded live On March 21, 2025at at "Reactor" club in Minsk, Belarus. Quite a ballsy and brave move releasing a live album as your debut release but Doūsk’s music speaks for itself with a level of SONIC distortion and manipulation which adds real weight to Igor Shaminsky’s pummelling bass and Dimitry Vashkov’s intense drumming.
The musical notes are quite long and drawn out in places with the rough sounding production values giving Doūsk a real muscular presence especially in the first few tracks with Sludge Dredd and Whisky Robot Dance setting the scene. Doūsk have a real CHAINSAW style effect to their music with the glitchy noises and sounds that feels like KARMA TO BURN jamming with BONGRIPPER, SUNN 0))) and The Melvins at times. Being a purely instrumental band works to Doūsk’s favour as they focus upon primarily developing a harsh Sludge/Stoner Metal sound with freakish amounts of noise inducing and amplifying heavy surroundings to a highly appreciative audience in attendance.
Doūsk generates a bleak sounding atmosphere throughout the album with flashes of Proggy Spaced Out Doom on tracks such as Over9000, Running On The Roof and Blueprint. With the lo-fi trappings of the record and some intense moments of screeching instrumental passages, the album can also be highly melodic and progressive on the later stages of the record. Doūsk perhaps rely on too much FEEDBACK and HEAVY REVERB at times but this allows the record to have quite an organic and dangerous industrial based energy which I wouldn’t expect on a LIVE album such as this. However, Doūsk prove what a highly talented band they really are.
This is the type of album that could see Doūsk obtain a loyal and dedicated cult following within the underground scene. I’m looking forward to hearing a proper “STUDIO” recording from Doūsk in the future but LIVE is one hell of a record that demands your full and undivided attention.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Riff Dealers for the promo.
LIVE! will be available to buy Digitally via Riff Dealers from Thursday May 01st 2025.
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