Sailor, bring your boombox when you go to sea!
And if you take me with you I'll bring my latest three tapes:
CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN - Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On (2026)
This mini album came to me during my last visit aboard the MS Stubnitz, where Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean where supporting Sumac. Speaking of: Sumac's Aaron Turner also created the cover artwork for "Let Us Not Speak Of Them But And Pass On".a
Between wails of feedback and distortion the release contains four boundlessly angry tracks of buzzing, droning, absolutely crushing Sludge Metal to suck all air and joy out of every room. This is nasty business - and it slays!
And if you take me with you I'll bring my latest three tapes:
CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN - Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On (2026)
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| CTTBOTO live in Hamburg |
Between wails of feedback and distortion the release contains four boundlessly angry tracks of buzzing, droning, absolutely crushing Sludge Metal to suck all air and joy out of every room. This is nasty business - and it slays!
NADJA - Seemannsgarn (Church In Session) (2026)
In case you're not speaking German and you wondered about the nautical reference of this tape: "Seemannsgarn" directly translates to "Seaman's Yarn".
The over fourty minutes long single track of this album had been released before and presented on video for Roadburn Redux, the 2021 pandemic online edition of the festival, so I knew without a doubt that this new live performance from January 2025, recorded in the Genezareth Church in Berlin, would at least be worth checking out.
And of course it was! The slowly building piece is dark foreboding Drone Metal in flawless perfection and for sure one of my favorite works in (the beknown to me part of) the huge discography of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker. Brilliant from start to finish.
The mint green cassette itself is anonymous, but it comes with a nice cover inside a slipcase with a punched out logo. Feels like an item found in an antiquarian treasure chest.
The over fourty minutes long single track of this album had been released before and presented on video for Roadburn Redux, the 2021 pandemic online edition of the festival, so I knew without a doubt that this new live performance from January 2025, recorded in the Genezareth Church in Berlin, would at least be worth checking out.
And of course it was! The slowly building piece is dark foreboding Drone Metal in flawless perfection and for sure one of my favorite works in (the beknown to me part of) the huge discography of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker. Brilliant from start to finish.
The mint green cassette itself is anonymous, but it comes with a nice cover inside a slipcase with a punched out logo. Feels like an item found in an antiquarian treasure chest.
WHERE MERMAIDS DROWN - Embrace The Ineluctable (2026)
The French Post Rockers are back - and not back, because they are still on a planned hiatus - with a new three-sog EP. Eighteen minutes of their epic longing sound packed into a beautiful cassette shell. Everything like you would expect, yet still a bit different.
"Embrace The Ineluctable" was recorded as a trio and the tracks are... not smaller or significantly shorter then all songs from the past, but a little more intimate. The chair circle draws closer together - and it has moved from the bottom of the ocean to sun-filled waters near the shore. Where Mermaids Drown hug you in a meaningful embrace, putting an understanding hand on your shoulder in a world of perpetual melancholy.
"Embrace The Ineluctable" was recorded as a trio and the tracks are... not smaller or significantly shorter then all songs from the past, but a little more intimate. The chair circle draws closer together - and it has moved from the bottom of the ocean to sun-filled waters near the shore. Where Mermaids Drown hug you in a meaningful embrace, putting an understanding hand on your shoulder in a world of perpetual melancholy.
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