Release Date: October 24th 2025. Record Label: Church Road Records. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl
For All The Dead Dreams - Tracklisting
1.Soliloquy 03:29
2.Rotting Blossoms 02:52
3.Decimated Graves 04:24
4.A Story Behind Every Light 03:37
5.Corporeal 02:45
Members
Vocals - Jim Hodge
Guitars - Phil Johnson
Guitars - James Lee-Ross
Drums - Mike Shepherd
Bass - Dan Dolby
Review
Sludge Metal nihilists MASTIFF return with their brutal new EP For All The Dead Dreams which continues the filth and misery created on their critically acclaimed 2024 album Deprecipice. That record showed a new violent side to MASTIFF where their blend of Hardcore, Doom, Sludge and Post-Black Metal grooves showcase a band finally settling on their own blend of aggressive carnage for the underground masses to lose themselves in.
For All The Dead Dreams is another round of pure filth and violent Sludge Metal surroundings with the band adding a slightly chaotic and messy blend of NOISE METAL that has influences ranging from CARCASS and NAPALM DEATH ringing in your ears throughout. The EP lasts for fifteen minutes with MASTIFF still playing some intense riffs with a twisted sense of melody behind them especially on tracks Soliloquy, Rotting Blossoms and Decimated Graves perhaps also being the heaviest and standout tracks on the EP.
MASTIFF provide unbreakable beatdowns and pulsating grind movements with lead vocalist Jim Hodge showcasing his own aggressive style of HARDCORE vocals which moves further into the extreme metal world at times. MASTIFF once again prove why they’re fastly becoming one of the most essential and brutal Sludge Metal bands within the UK scene and with their music having a “NO FUCKS” given attitude this makes the band even more dangerous especially on the final two tracks of the EP with A Story Behind Every Light and Corporeal leaving the listener in a complete FUCKED UP state.
For All The Dead Dreams is everything you want from a brutally charged record that’s not afraid to get down and dirty by providing some of the most horrific and violent sounds you’ll hear this year.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Church Road Records for the promo.
For All The Dead Dreams is available to buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via Church Road Records.
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