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Band : Earthride Maryland sludgeband Earthride takes advantage of its ten years of history to deliver a truly sizzling third album. Something Wicked features everything you could possibly want from a sludge album and without a doubt shows that Earthride have not only spent a lot of time perfecting their bulldozing sound but have created something that is familiar yet individual and bludgeoning heavy at the same time. Following the same grinding near stoner-doomy path of their previous outings Something Wicked is dark and grinding, with the Crowbar meets classic Sabbath influence, laden with THC drenched overtones and thick Marshall and Orange amplification dominance with their songs either keeping the psychomania-attitude of their earlier work or just drenched in the Motorhead-attitude for the more kill or be killed approach. Sounding like these guys set up in the studio and just plugged in and played, putting all overproduced elements aside, making their best album up to date raw and powerful, giving it the live organic vibe. The guitar work is fucking heavy, the drumming is groovy, the low tuned bass is something more than an earthquake and meanwhile, Dave Sherman (ex-Spirit Caravan) alternates between a Lemmy-esque strangled rasp to slightly Anselmo bourbon soaked-vocals. I hope one day, Earthride will present us their material live, the best setting of course would be the green room at Roadburn fest. 95/100 Cosmicmasseur. |