Modder – Modder (EP – Consouling Sounds / Lay Bare Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Doom-Metal, Cinematographic, Industrial.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Modder is a Belgian formation, which started as a duo and became a trio -featuring members of Barst. This work features four songs.
Content: Modder invites the listener to embark for an extremely dark trip, which is carried by Doom- and so-called Sludge-Metal influences. There’s an apocalyptic fusion between guitar play and drums. Bombastic and definitely Cinematographic for its instrumental edit, this album sounds like hell.
+ + + : This music is not only Metal-driven, but still has something obscure and tormented reminding Industrial pioneers. The tracks are moving crescendo accompanied by heavy, bombastic drums leading the listener into a state of approximate trance. I have a preference for the last tracks, which sounds a bit more diversified.
– – – : I’m sometimes missing a few vocals and/or experiments with vocals or spoken samplings; just a word or a shout would be cool.
Conclusion: Modder brings you sonic obscurity; a dark trip symbolizing the dark ages we’re going through.
Best songs: “When Your Bones Weren’t Meant To be”, “Wax Rituals”.
Rate: 7.
Listen to “Modder”:
Artist: www.facebook.com/modder666
Labels: http://consouling.be / www.facebook.com/ConsoulingSounds / www.LayBareRecordings.com / www.facebook.com/laybarerecordings
About Modder
Modder is a sludge and doom metal band from Ghent, Belgium. Mathieu Tas, who records as Mathlovsky, started the project on his own in March 2020 and was joined by drummer Gregory Simons for a first single. By the time of the 2021 release the line-up had grown to a full band with bass, a second guitar and synthesizers.
“Mudslinger” appeared in 2020. The self-titled “Modder” came out on December 3, 2021 with four tracks – “Mount Frequency”, “Wax Rituals”, “Spasm” and “When Your Bones Weren’t Meant To Be” – written, mixed and mastered by Mathlovsky.
The band followed with “Doom Denker” and “The Great Liberation Through Hearing” in 2023. Consouling Sounds and Lay Bare Recordings reissued “Mudslinger” on CD in 2025, Lay Bare Recordings reissued “The Great Liberation Through Hearing” on vinyl the same year, and “Destroying Ourselves For A Place In The Sun” also appeared in 2025.
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