Mastiff – Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth (2021) – Filthy immersive Sludge/Doom with black vein

In September 2021, the English band Mastiff leaves the biennial quarantine to launch another doom/sludge dynamite. The name of the album could not make more sense for the current context of our insignificant blue sphere: Leave Me the Ashes of the Earth.

The Hiss opens the journey with the underhanded feeling that the album is going to climb onto the consecrated Black-metal-Norwegian-poorly-recorded shelf. The track is barely audible and it is permeates with unintelligible cadaverous screams. Fail undoes the prank and brings out the black dusty wind from the dirtiest coal mine that characterizes Sludge; riff squeaks, vocals screamed and intemperate rhythms. From Repulse onwards, the listener either submits to tension or is cut off from an overwhelming sound experience. Speed, rhythm and groove stand out in shorter tracks like Midnight Creeper and Beige Sabbath. A tiny black metal vessel is still perceived in more tense riffs that guide the dizzying cadence, as in Endless and Scalped.

Doom/sludge dirt lovers don't miss out on this Mastiff gem. Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth sinks you into filth but it washes your soul, as results, it gives thunderous safe haven within an increasingly sick world.

Tracklist

1. The Hiss 04:08  

2. Fail 01:15  

3. Repulse 03:59  

4. Midnight Creeper 01:49  

5. Beige Sabbath 02:06  

6. Futile 04:05  

7. Endless 02:43  

8. Scalped and Salted 03:48  

9. Lung Rust 06:59

Final Conclusion:

Marcelo Hissa