This is a review of a split album between California's Keeper and the United Kingdom's Sea Bastard which will be released in February of 2015 as a joint effort between Medusa Crush, Dry Cough, Tadpole Records and Black Reaper Records and we will start of the review with Keeper a band that plays a mixture of black metal, sludge and doom.
A very dark and heavy sound starts off their side of the split along with some melodies being used at times and after a minute high pitched black metal screams are added into the music and they mix in with the doom and sludge style that are coming out of the guitars and their song is 14 minutes in length as well as always sticking to a very slow and heavy pace and when the song gets closer to then end it brings in a brief guitar lead, the production sounds very dark and heavy while the lyrics cover occult themes.
In my opinion Keeper are a very great sounding mixture of black metal, doom and sludge and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band and their side of the split.
Next up is Sea Bastard a band that plays a mixture of crust, sludge and doom metal.
Their side of the split starts off with a very distorted and powerful sounding bass guitar which leads up to a more heavy, slow and melodic doom metal sound and after awhile deep grim growling vocals are added into the music and the song is 20 minutes in length and halfway through the song high pitched sludge screams are added into the track and the song also sticks to a very slow and heavy direction from beginning to end along with a brief guitar lead, the production sounds very dark yet heavy and powerful at the same time while the lyrics cover occult themes.
In my opinion Sea Bastard are a very great sounding mixture of crust, sludge and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band.
In conclusion I feel this is a very great sounding split and I would recommend it to all fans of black metal, crust, sludge and doom metal. 8 out of 10.
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