Ancestors — Neptune With Fire

Sludge is pretty easy to come by, but it's always best served with plodding drums, impossibly dissonant guitars and a doom-laden disposition. Ancestors posses all three things and Neptune With Fire is a heavy bevy of sooty hate. The band take cues from the grimy guys in the Melvins and Sleep, and tune down, way down, to create music with an incredibly dense bottom end. It's heavy as hell and also gives props to bands like Slint for their use of shifting dynamics and precision playing. Unsurprisingly, every song is incredibly drawn out, so just getting through a single track is a bit of a chore. Luckily, anybody delving into Ancestors would likely be predisposed to this sort of music, so the band should find a receptive audience if they play their cards right.

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