MARES OF DIOMEDES – Mares Of Diomedes CD

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New band and new label here and I’m impressed with them both! These guys are a two-piece (I think!) and play very heavy sludge/doom. Usually the sludge/doom tag coupled with cod-ritual artwork with skulls would have me running for the hills but this is good stuff. It’s a bit all over the place – I could do without the stoner rock riffs and screechy vocals – but when these guys go for the epic, sprawling Neurosis sound they nail it. There’s a tune on this one that has a few minutes of total monolithic, tarpit majesty, with a clarrion call synth line throughout and great heavy tribal drumming…..but it ends with some Iron Monkey riffing/shrieking that I cannae be doing with. Not perfect but have the potential to be a cracking band I reckon! Nice digipak.