Despite the very noisy, aggressive and rough first song, the record in total prefers to express a strongly down-pulling and endlessly sour feeling, that's closer to hopeless melancholy than to noisy heaviness. This line was continued on their late releases as well, though the heavy rawness didn't disappear completely. Sad that they didn't focus more on raw heaviness in the followings, since the combination of their pretty basic themes and strongly distorted sound proved to be a pretty effective tool, that could have been dropped in any time, even to make their music a bit more intense and diverse. The band had affinity for black metal influences as well, and since sludgy and blackened atmosphere doesn't really fitting together, this blackened touch is kinda restricted like in case of American bands in general. There are blackened themes appearing in some form in at least 3 songs, and the vocal style also could be related to the style, but in this kinda low amount and by this sound these doesn't really count as determining features. The strongly demoralizing and desperate feeling of sludge staying dominant and for those who prefer this direction on exaggerated level, this demo might become a big favorite.
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