Black Box Warning - Attendre La Mort (2018)
Hailing from France, the sludge
three-piece of Black Box Warning makes their debut with this
five-track EP, which features different dosage increments (e.g., “4
mg”, “2 mg”) for each of the track titles. Kicking off with “5
mg”, the group swings out a heavy bass presence before laying in
the raw-sounding belts of growling and gnarled guitar. Tight
handling of the riffs and concentrated spikes of impact show the band
keeping their song focused on harsh but controlled delivery, and they
keep that up with the tracks which follow, unfolding a set of dirty
lungers while spine-tingling tone disruption and generally grimy
atmosphere fill in the space between wrathful outbursts.
Though it all comes off as something
you'll have heard before if you've listened to more than a handful of
sludge albums, BBW pulls it off with earnest commitment and solid
handling of the nuances, bringing a liveliness to the down'n'dirty
maneuverings that helps lend believability to the usual misanthropic
posturing that goes with the genre. It sounds mean, which is a big
chunk of making sludge work to begin with, so as long as they keep
that up while developing stuff like more memorable riff-hooks on
their follow-ups, they should be well-poised to deliver even filthier
barrels of bass and rage.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Attalla, Blacksmoker,
Doperider, Dopethrone, Grey Widow
~
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