Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (2010)

   Bongripper was known as an instrumental stoner/sludge/doom band with quite extended song lenghts. Basically their music was built on the contrast of noisy sludgy riffings and more relaxing psychedelic atmosphere, but they've also experimented only with noise.
   Their fifth album "Satan Worshipping Doom" was more unified than the previous ones and showed a developed musical approach both in themes and song structures. The harsh and heavy sludgy themes became dominant and even if they frequently slowing down, their music still sounds more intense than before. The psychedelic themes and atmosphere had completing role instead of being like long breaks, and complied better to the main themes. Previously these softening switches were responsible for the feeling if like the songs were endless, because of the common 10-20 minutes songs lenghts they've lasted for a while, and kind of lost the context with the previous heavy themes. Therefore the whole album sounded like depleting it's possibibilities fast and got tired. "Satan Worshipping Doom" is also divided to 4 over 10 minutes long songs (not surprisingly) and with time it's also turning slower and noisier, but the unified concept and the heavy sound keeps the album together. The obscure, aggressive background concept and musical approach was never far from the band and it was frequently returning from time to time, but it was never so comprehensive like in this case. This album might be also not the easiest to go into because of it's repetitiveness that might sound too monotonous, but the ominous themes are great and able to escort the listener into the very depths of doom.