Exclusive Album Premiere Of Sludge/Stoner Metallers PIECE Brilliant New Album RAMBLER'S AXE

Rambler’s Axe: Berlin Sludge Band PIECE Sharpen Their Sound on a Crushing Second Album"

Berlin’s PIECE swing back hard with Rambler’s Axe, their second album and heaviest slab yet.

The production strikes a perfect balance between raw, unfiltered intensity and a fuzzy, huge but still punchy sonic landscape that brings out every riff and nuance of PIECE’s intense performance.

Drawing inspiration from the likes of Crowbar, High on Fire, and Eyehategod, PIECE carve out their own path through molten soundscapes and warlike intensity.

Massive down-tuned guitars, cavernous drums, and vocals that howl somewhere between rage and ritual.

Lyrically, the album drifts through myth, violence, and inner ruin — warlike imagery meets personal collapse. Their second album is darker, deeper, and more focused — out Friday 5th of September via This Charming Man Records.

The Berlin-based band delivers a powerful blend of sludge metal, doom, and rock 'n' roll. Inspired by bands like Crowbar, High on Fire, and Eyehategod, they fuse the raw aggression of their members' musical roots in hardcore and punk with the crushing heaviness and riff-driven sound of sludge and heavy metal.

We're excited to premiere the brilliant and hard-hitting new album from PIECE thanks to the great folks over at CZ! Promotions.

Thanks to CZ Promotions for the details.

Rambler's Axe is available to buy on now on DD/Vinyl via This Charming Man Records.

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PIECE Berlin Based SLUDGE/DOOM/METAL Outfit Unleashes Powerhouse Title Track "Ramblers Axe"

Lisiten to the New Single "Rambler's Axe" from Berlin Based SLUDGE/DOOM/METAL Outfit below:

The Band's New Full-Length Album Nears September 5th Release on THIS CHARMING MAN RECORDS. Please find Preorder Options HERE.

With a thunderous drum intro and an unrelenting groove, "Ramblers Axe" emerges as a monumental title track that sets the tone for what’s to come. The song tells an epic tale of conquest and spiritual upheaval, following a group of warriors led by the symbolic “Ramblers Axe” as they storm foreign lands to overthrow a false king and dismantle a misguided faith.

Blending fierce instrumentation with vivid, mythological lyricism, "Ramblers Axe" transcends the battlefield—exploring themes of divine judgment, transformation, and fate. The axe itself becomes a symbol of power and destiny, marking the dawn of a new era.

Berlin-based sludge metal band PIECE announces new album "Rambler’s Axe". The album exemplifies the band’s signature blend of high-energy, fast-paced sludge metal, while simultaneously delving into deeper, guitar-driven doom melodies. The album will be released on vinyl via This Charming Man Records from Friday 05th September 2025.

Thanks to CZ Promotions for the details..

Rambler's Axe is available to buy on now on DD/Vinyl via This Charming Man Records.

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PIECE - Rambler's Axe (Album Review)

Release Date: September 05th 2025. Record Label: This Charming Man Records. Formats: DD/Vinyl

Rambler’s Axe - Tracklisting

1.Heria

2.Demigod 

3.Bastard Sword

4.Spheres

5.Hathol

6.Rambler's Axe

7.Owl Eyes

8.Serpentfolk Tyel

Review

Sludge/Stoner Metal bruisers PIECE return with their second full length album Rambler’s Axe which follows a similar destructive and aggressive path to the likes of CONAN, Mastodon, High On Fire and Firebreather but with a NOLA based intensity with shades of CROWBAR to keep things extra HEAVY. There’s a dramatic Progressive Metal sound here which also appeared on their acclaimed  2023 debut album Ancient Greed but PIECE add a richer, fuller and more diverse flavour to the mix which has a certain Spaced Out flavour when the time calls for this.

The record starts off in spectacular fashion with the opening track Heria which fuses High On Fire style riffage and creative themes inspired by CONAN though with PIECE still holding their own ground by putting their own great take on the Sludge/Stoner Metal sound. There’s a lot of psychedelic energy being generated but it’s more of a murky, distorted and drone based kind with a sadistic FUZZ movement that allows PIECE to suddenly change into a more action packed style of musical momentum.

Second track Demigod is a more subdued affair compared to the bombastic opening track though it’s still full on destructive CAVEMAN carnage with a welcome essence of Hardcore Metal and Punk Rock vibes that gives off a street level attitude that appears within the grizzled vocals and battle hardened lyrics. The final stages of the track has some intense complex musical melodies with a raw underground aesthetic that sees areas of Post-Doom and Post-Rock attitude suddenly starting to emerge from the shadows.

The instrumental playing on the record by PIECE is sublime with the band putting in a commanding performance throughout which allows the record to have quite a beautiful organic quality to it despite the world destroying and apocalyptic melodies being played around everything. PIECE confidently adds strands of ambient vibes and haunting soundbytes that adds quite a fantastical feel to the record with the listener essentially becoming part of the overall musical adventure which develops even further on tracks such as Bastard Sword, Spheres and Hathol.

The Hardcore and Punk Rock vibes  is one of the main strengths of the record which allows the more dominant Doom, Sludge and Stoner grooves to develop into a more interesting style of Prog Metal, Psych and Cosmic surroundings that provides a rich level of storytelling as well. The second half of the record keeps up with the fast-paced narrative of the first half with PIECE never wavering from their overall mission of delivering brutal grooves that have a sense of pure melody and harmony.

Rambler’s Axe could be considered Post-Metal at times with the many instances of Psychedelic and Spaced Out pastures though what you can call this is simply an outstanding album that allows PIECE to avoid the dreaded second album / sophomore record curse with flying colours. This is a record that demands to be listened to by the biggest audience possible and it’s backed up by perfectly pitched production values.

PIECE have come on leaps and bounds since their 2023 debut album with Rambler’s Axe without doubt being the much better album and perhaps allowing the band to move onto bigger and better things.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to CZ Promotions for the promo.

Rambler's Axe is available to buy on now on DD/Vinyl via This Charming Man Records.

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Sludge Metallers PIECE Release New Song SPHERES Featuring NATHAN MISTEREK From GRAVES AT SEA

Piece is a sludge metal band from Berlin Germany that was formed in 2017 and since then has released an EP, a split record with Canadian Band Empress and the full-length album ‘Ancient Greed’. 
Piece plays fast paced sludge metal in the vain of bands like High on Fire or Crowbar.

The song "Spheres" will be featured on a split record with sludge doom band Arsen from Stuttgart Germany.

The song features guest vocals by Nathan Misterek of Graves at Sea.

Piece say about the song "Spheres“:

"Spheres is one of our fastest songs and has been a really fun one to play live. Lyrically the song revolves around the collision and conjunction of two universes and the chaos that is evoked by that. Musically we displayed the collision in the first fast part of the song and the conjunction in the later slower part that builds up to Nathan's guest part.“

You can catch Piece on the road this summer:

With Love Your Witch

June 13 - Leipzig - Stö
June 14 - Braunschweig - B58
June 15 - Schwerin - Komplex
June 16 - Hamburg - Molotow

With Crowbar

June 22 - Chemnitz- AJZ
June 23 - Kassel - Goldgrube
June 25 - Berlin - SO36
June 26 - Weinheim - Café Central
June 27 - Cham - L.A. Cham
June 28 - Erfurt - Bandhaus

With Napalm Death

July 13 - Herford - Kulturwerk

Links:


https://pieceismetal.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pieceismetal/
https://www.facebook.com/pieceismetal
https://www.mahnmalrecords.com/

Thanks to PIECE for all of the details.

Piece - Ancient Greed (Album Review)

Release Date: September 15th 2023. Record Label: Mahnmal Records. Formats: DD/Vinyl

Ancient Greed - Tracklisting

1.Sarnath 05:47

2.Titan Age 06:49

3.Wayfarer 06:40

4.Illusionist 03:49

5.Ancient Greed 06:27

6.Harmless Fool 03:51

7.Sonic Portal 10:09

Review:

Ancient Greed is the debut album from Sludge/Doom/Stoner Metallers Piece who play aggressive and progressive sounding music that will appeal to fans of High On Fire and early era Mastodon. What allows Piece to standout from the other bands of the scene is their great use of Hardcore Punk that comes mostly through the fast-paced aggressive guitar tone and the delivery of the vocals. The vocals are mostly from the Sludge/Stoner Metal scene but there’s an almost Hardcore quality to them. 

The album also benefits from outlandish Psychedelic and Fuzzed up guitars. The music is dominantly aggressive with that eerie High On Fire tone appearing on the excellent batch of opening songs of Sarnath, Titan Age and Wayfarer which sees the band touch upon the free-roaming world of Caveman Doom specialists CONAN. The instrumental work has an almost violent and hypnotic primal quality throughout with Piece playing a wicked style of Thrash Metal and Groove Metal on the more classic leaning parts of the album mostly within Titan Age and Wayfarer. 

There’s an almost Pitch Blackened Sludge mentality appearing within the lyrics of the album, the vocals only hammers that sentiment home. As you can easily understand what’s being sung even when the vocals change into a more unconventional style where the harsh growls become part of the norm. 

Piece do showcase a more wilder style of Progressive Sludge/Stoner Metal on certain stages of the album where trippy feedback loops and guitar reverb shows a different creative side to the band that I admired greatly on this release. The songwriting moves up a notch on the later stages of the album on tracks such as Ancient Greed, Harmless Fool and the standout final track Sonic Portal.

Ancient Greed is a superbly constructed release that has a beginning, middle and end that’s bursting with intelligence and a willingness to adapt to different climates of Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal that allows the band not only to pay homage to their musical heroes but also to make an exciting name and reputation for themselves in today’s vibrant underground scene. 

Piece have delivered an intense and electrifying debut album that will have you listening to Ancient Greed for days on end.

Excellent and Highly Recommended.

Words by Steve Howe

Ancient Greed is available to buy now on DD via BandCamp and via Mahnmal Records

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EMPRESS and PIECE Announce Joint German Tour

Canadian Progressive Sludge Rockers EMPRESS are making the bold move of doing a joint tour in Germany with Sludge/Stoner Metallers PIECE.

The tour is in support of both bands upcoming split album release which is being released in November 2018. I've heard this split album recently and it's loud and ferocious as hell.

If you're a fan of bands such as High On Fire, Mastodon and Baroness then the upcoming album and tour will be something special.

You can check the dates below:

Empress Links:

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Piece Links:

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