New Year, New Stuff - Tort "II"

For anyone just born this past 4 days "II" is Tort's second release (read up on your Roman numerals kids) and my first experience of their particular brand of stoner/doom/sludge/death metal.

The opening track opens up like Incantation stretching and limbering up for one of their heavy assaults with it's agonisingly slow riffs and crushing atmosphere, but as "Scratching The Coffin" develops it casts off the often worn cloak of Incantation and throws in some real sludge rumble and chops into the equation.  This pretty much sets the scene for the rest of the record, I can't think of any other band that manages to combine the familiar sound of sludge and stoner metal with DM so well.  Check out "Cry Of The Damned" for it's stoner riffs and DM vocals combo that are a perfect accompaniment to each other.

With it's Satanic spoken word interludes and intros there's a fair nod to Electric Wizard in there (opening to final track "Dead" for example) but these aren't clones of the scene the whole album is absorbing and enticing and scary at the same time.  It's like pulling an ugly fucker in a bar and in your drunken stupor taking them back to your place to find they are shit hot in bed and you will probably end up seeing them again!

At times the vocals remind me of early Suffocation which may or may not be an accurate reflection of Tort's DM influences.  All in all over 6 tracks you get a quality release for the start of the New Year and if your resolution is to pick up more cool music feel free to start as you mean to go on and buy "II" now from Discos Macarras Records here.

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