Release Date: September 01st 2026. Record Label: Various. Format: DD/Vinyl
CADAVER DE CABRA - Tracklist
1.No Rules Only Sludge
2.Ketamine Zombie
3.Satan Blues
4.Aquelarre
5.Cadaver De Cabra
6.Cheddar Brain
Review
Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metallers Cadaver de Cabra release their debut self-titled album which provides a filth ridden style of music populated by the likes of COUGH, Electric Wizard, Weedeater, Bongzilla and EYEHATEGOD. The music is violently heavy from the very start ith Cadaver de Cabra excelling laying down the rules for listeners to follow within the superbly titled No Rules Only Sludge. Though, the band aren’t adverse into playing down-tuned passages filled with Doom/Stoner Metal aggression. The vocals are mostly delivered by groans, grunts and chants which is part of the course for an album such as this.
Cadaver de Cabra are not shy bringing a forceful distorted FUZZ METAL attitude with a superb Psychedelic effect which comes mostly through the powerful down-tuned sludgy guitars. There’s a subtle WEEDIAN sense of humour shining through within the song titles that’s perhaps inspired by the great word play of Electric Wizard and Church Of Misery. Songs such as Ketamine Zombie, Satan Blues and Cheddar Brain also offer the loudest and classic sounding Stoner based moments on the album. Though, that doesn’t stop Cadaver de Cabra employing a wealth of different musical song structures including surprising Ambient sounds and Post-Doom effects.
The violent vocals add a vicious Progressive attitude with the band switching up their different styles of music that results in some fantastic instrumental Sludge/Stoner Guitar passages. The music can be quite frenzied with Cadaver de Cabra developing fantastic down-tuned rhythms that can be quite melodic especially on the later stages of No Rules Only Sludge and Ketamine Zombie.
Another thing to notice is that the album was recorded live in one actual take and Cadaver de Cabra hardly put a foot wrong. As the band say about the recording of the album below:
“No overdubs, no quantization, just the band playing live, all at once. Rather than chasing perfection, we wanted to capture the feeling of four people in a room pushing their amps to the limit.”
The record is superbly realized and has a massive grime and filth based aspect which only adds to the hypnotic and gloomy experience with Cadaver de Cabra creating massive volumes of destructive FUZZ. This soon transforms into areas of trippy Psychedelic Rock and Distorted Spaced Out sounds within the other great standout tracks on the album on: Satan Blues, Cadaver de Cabra and Cheddar Brain.
I wasn’t expecting the amount of Blues Rock or Doomed Out Blues that Cadaver de Cabra include on the album which allows them to develop seedy levels of violent AMPLIFIER based distortion which fully sells the whole LIVE RECORDING aspect even further onto greater heights. WIth a fearless attitude being perhaps their “secret” weapon to entice listeners with. As when Cadaver de Cabra decided to let fly with that filth ridden style of Sludge/Stoner Metal superiority then there is no stopping them releasing drugged out sounds, grooves and riffs of the highest order.
Cadaver de Cabra’s debut album is a one creepy hallucinogenic trip worth taking with its great mix of different Sludge/Stoner Metal themes that can be quite highly atmospheric along the way. This is a great band who I hope get the most exposure they fully deserve from within the underground scene as they have real potential to become more well known in the near future.
Superb. End Of.
Words by Steve Howe
The album is available to buy digitally from all good stockists now.
The Vinyl edition will be co-released by the following labels
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La Rubia Producciones, Burial Records, Discos Marginales, MinoRobscuR, Quebranta Records, Nooirax Producciones, Ruido y Pasión and Doomawaits.
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