Blüdwyrm - The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance (EP Review)

Release Date: June 05th 2026. Record Label: Road To Masochist. Formats: CD/DD/Tape

The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance - Tracklisting

1.Preacher Of My Own Demise

2.Isolate

3.The Vultures

4.Pesticides

Members

 

Leo Butterworth: Bass & Vocals

Alex Jones: Guitar & FX

Seb Olds: Drums

Review

Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metallers Blüdwyrm debut EP The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance will appeal to fans of Electric Wizard, Weedeater and Bongzilla the music is constantly seedy with a violent Fuzzed Up and Down Tuned approach hidden within the music. This is good old fashioned and superbly menacing Doom/Sludge Metal with Blüdwyrm expertly creating gloomy violent soundscapes with a distorted amplified quality with a certain raw sounding aesthetic hidden behind all the grimy melodies that reside within the whole EP.

The EP isn’t the best produced or recorded but allows Blüdwyrm to have a real sound of the actual underground running through their music. The whole thing is stripped back and allows Blüdwyrm to play right through with a violent energy emitting from all the stacks of amplifiers they have at their disposal. The songs are quite filthy and intense with a menacing WEEDIAN environment almost moving everything over to the EXTREME METAL side of life within the opening tracks of Preacher Of My Own Demise and Isolate.

Lead vocalist Leo Butterworth demonstrates a world weary style of vocals from someone who has seen everything and can’t take anymore of the shit currently going on within the world. What makes Blüdwyrm standout is the use of groove based mechanics which gives their music a highly impressive style of riff-centric delivery and the added use of Psychedelic effects makes you sit up and take notice.

I get a vibe of stripped back and slower versions of HIGH ON FIRE and MOTORHEAD on the later stages of the EP which fully sold me on Blüdwyrm’s overall creative vision especially on tracks The Vultures and Pesticides. The tone is bleak, desolate and one of abject misery once again being delivered through that THICK WALL OF AMPLIFIED SMOKE and DOOMED OUT DESPAIR.

The Blissful Ignorance Of Sleep is quite a well put together EP that allows Blüdwyrm to showcase a great style of Stoner Metal momentum within the meatier grooves that await you on various sections on the record. These guys have a fine eye for detail with a certain Post-Doom, Ambient, Psych and Post-Rock direction appearing within the standout final track of Pesticides which I’m hoping they explore further on future releases.

I feel with slightly better production values and a longer running time that Blüdwyrm could be really onto something special but that doesn’t stop The Blissful Ignorance Of Sleep being a downright thrilling release to make themselves known with.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Imperative PR for the promo.

The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance is available to buy now on CD/DD/Tape via Road To Masochist.

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Doom/Sludge Outfit Blüdwyrm Prepare To Release The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance on Road To Masochist

From Dorset’s gently undulating chalk downs and ancient woodlands comes a new and far from picturesque entry into the UK’s proud annals of down-tuned, dirt-encrusted, slow-motion metal. Despite only lurching into existence in 2025, Blüdwyrm are already building a formidable reputation for themselves with their snarling collision of soul-shaking doom and feral sludge. They’ve shared the stage with the likes of Witchsorrow, Viking Skull, Mephistofeles, Komatsu, Bile Caster, Nomadic Rituals, Bismut and many more – and this summer their debut EP is set to be unleashed. Prepare for the suppurating sound of The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance!

This trip into the underworld begins with the lead weight ‘Preacher Of My Own Demise’, which rumbles into life on the back of a thick, rolling riff with a snarling stoner groove, before its own colossal mass sends it sliding over the edge of a crevasse, into a slough of sludge and inescapable sucking filth. With all light extinguished we find ourselves in the dark caverns of ‘Isolate’, where a raw, bleeding vocal intones a trance inducing invocation over a relentless, pulsing crawl towards the grave. 

This is oppressive and lightless…doomed, damned and dying. Next up in this litany of grim deeds, ‘The Vultures’ may start with a ragged and stained, rattling groove but it soon collapses into a pained crawl - slower and slower, crushing you down into the dirt – before rearing to its feet with a wailing solo for a last charge to its broken conclusion. Morose, regretful, echoing notes then summon into half-life the decimating, desecrating monster that is ‘Pesticides’. 

A vein of sorrow, like a stream of polluted blood runs through the depths of this ragged ravine, carved out by world-eating riffs, while coruscating vocals and tumbling drums supply the momentum to carry this dying behemoth across the finish line to the accompaniment of wails of agonised feedback. The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance feels sick and wounded, but utterly defiant and indisputably real. Just like the band’s devastating live performances, this EP delivers a cathartic cleansing and leaves you in a beautifully bloody state of shock.

Looking inwards with an unwavering honesty and reflecting on the world around them through an unfiltered lens, Blüdwyrm bring a palpable emotional depth to the crushing heft and fierce intensity of their music. It’s a powerful combination that gives The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance an addictive quality that will have you reaching for its vial of dark, bittersweet elixir time and time again. Perfectly imperfect, with open heart and open wounds, Blüdwyrm will be darkening your summer skies from June 5th, when Road To Masochist unleash The Blissful Sleep Of Ignorance on CD and cassette. Everything is about to get a whole lot heavier.

Line-up:

Leo Butterworth: Bass & Vocals

Alex Jones: Guitar & FX

Seb Olds: Drums

Genre: Doom/Sludge Metal

For fans of: Electric Wizard | Weedeater | Cough | Dopethrone

Further Information:

https://linktr.ee/bludwyrm_uk

https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/