People who are familiar with the genre know what to expect; long slow songs with a real nasty and filthy sound. Especially the vocals sound very disgusting from both Pit and Friso. Besides the nastiness the next important thing is a groove. And there is one hell of an intoxicating groove in Mary Bell, might it a be an extremely slow one of course. And all this combined bulldozers through your speakers into your ear holes ending up in your THC-drenched brain.

 

And with this genre a lower recording quality makes everything sound even better, or dirtier I might say. It’s on one hand very relaxing, but on the other you kind of get a little aggressive from it, depending on the mood you’re in. But especially the drone-like ending of the over twenty minutes track ‘Delirium’ is a great listen right before passing out in bed. Good stuff.

 

I know the sludgecore scene is practically non-existent, but nevertheless Mary Bell have delivered a strong debut in this genre. This record was recorded in the old line-up, and I don’t think I have seen the new one yet so I’m curious to seeing them live somewhere soon. Dutch stoners check this out!!