FISTULA

Goat

Crucial Blast

8 / 10

Track listing:

01. Ohio Death Toll Rising
02. One Chair an An Electrical Cord
03. The Ones That Got Away
04. So Far Sowell So What
05. Mission Accomplished

Lifer Corey Bing continues to steer the ship of FISTULA through perfect storms and murky waters, opting to keep his sludge/doom/kill metal loud and abrasive even during those few and far between stretches of calm sea. Shooting pains and earaches abound on new EP "Goat", a splendid follow-up to the brilliant "Burdened by Your Existence" full-length.

This time you are offered a front row seat to the deranged mind performance of one Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland serial killer and convicted rapist in whose home police found the remains of 11 women. Few acts could paint such disturbing images in such vividly hateful tones. FISTULA does just that on "Goat" by tormenting the listener with the band's fundamentally-based, yet comparatively varied, sludge battery. Beyond the song specifics, the production is caustic and violent to a frightening degree; play at high volumes it is not only deafening, but disconcerting even for veteran fans of the style.

The terror waves begin with "Ohio Death Toll Rising". Nothing short of vintage bulldozer FISTULA, the track includes a break that could work as an offshoot of the main riff to "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", that is if the master tapes were immersed in battery acid. The lengthy recording of a news report during the song's final section brings the gruesomeness of the Sowell atrocities right into your living room. Moving through "One Chair and an Electric Cord", "The Ones that Got Away", and "So Far Sowell So What" are representative of FISTULA's slow suffocation through premature burial that is followed by the act of yanking the nearly-dead up through the earth by the ears and dismembering by way of up-tempo crust assault. The high speeds reached during "The Ones that Got Away" and the tempo variation of "So Far Sowell So What", complete with samples of human misery concerning the events then unfolding, are most worthy of note. Bringing back the ugly in its purest form on "Mission Accomplished" is the final nail in a coffin headed for an unmarked grave. If you don't know FISTULA, then you don't know sludge. It's as simple as that.

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