"A Quietus Selection"

When you need your doom a little slower, it's time for drone metal or drone doom. VVITCH just released a 2-track EP with enough heavy tones to slow down any doom fan. Drone is worth checking out if you have not listened before, and existing fans of drone doom will love it, so check out "A Quietus Selection" by VVITCH --


"Obsessive Thoughts" is all atmosphere until about 2 minutes in, and then the chills begin. Hard to imagine you are anywhere other than a dark, dank dungeon while listening, with evil and foreboding portents at every turn.

"The Quietus Calling" has a nice transition into bells about two thirds of the way in. Very good.

I dig how different these two tracks are from each other, both in length and in style, and yet they still go together to make a cohesive EP.



VVITCH is from Italy.

From VVITCH --

VVITCH fuse the long tones of drone with heaviness of doom metal and the dark, grief ambient of funeral doom. A bass guitar, synth and drums are the elements of this sick mixture.
In this EP you’ll fall in a grief trip through sorrow. A gloomy atmosphere of desolation squeeze the heart and erode the mind to became an “obsessive thought”. You can’t get rid and still fall, your mind collapse and lose all hope. In that moment “the quiet calling” and you can’t hold out much longer.
Thats “A Quietus Selection”!

Drone metal "Excavation" debut EP from BRONTOSAURUS

The Swamp has its share of drone metal (our newest band is COUNT SZAR) and ambient psych (founding brother OPIUM WARLOCK). So when I got the word about the debut album from BRONTOSAURS, I was right on it. And I was not disappointed! This is drone of the heaviest sort, and delivered with an unending barrage of unique ambient touches. This album is as fantastic as it is original, so have a listen to "Excavation" on Bandcamp --


Beyond the complete brutality of this heaviness on the first track and "Junkhead", there are some masterful flourishes to the music. The intentional skips, the drum work, the straining guitars, samples, the effects .... simply incredible stuff going on here. Despite the sheer weight of the music, there is so much variety to the music and sounds that you will simply not be able to pull your ears away from any of it. You are rewarded for catching the details as they travel past you.

Fuzzy's favorite song? Not an easy choice. I will say that the middle of "Junkhead" sent tingles up my spine, and the sheer originality of "Dinocracy" makes it stand out despite its short length. Drone purists might complain about the drift into ambient on a few of these songs, but to me, that is the appeal of this album. Ambient is the heavy half-brother of drone, and Brontosaurus is the father of them both.


I pity the demise of the dinosaurs, and I pity you if you miss out on this drone metal marvel with an ambient flair.

Brontosaurus is the drone metal project from Jan Chojnowski of The Howling Eye.

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