EP Review: King Corpse – Sacred Crimson (Self Released)

King Corpse are a sludge metal trio from the Black Country. They will release their new EP, Sacred Crimson on April 17th 2020. The EP includes five brand new tracks but the physical copies of the album will come with an extra three bonus tracks from the bands first EP that have been re-mastered.

Jack from King Corpse has said:

I think this release is us beginning to stretch our wings a bit. We ’re-branching out from our stoner/doom roots, trying to explore other ways that heavy can be expressed. We’ve worked super hard to create something original that above all we hope people can connect with.

There’s some dour threat to the scaled back intro of Exhumation which releases its poison into the air with some seriously fuzzed out heaviness. Like a crypt that hasn’t been opened in centuries, the suffocating smells that emerge from this opener is disorientating and destructive.

Talking of disorientating…

Drowning is a stupendously unique offering that shakes the brain matter about, the heavy portions akin to 500 pounds of steel pressing down on the skull. Climb My Bones has some down-right sexy groove to its guitars, albeit still with King Corpse’s incredible level of mind-mushing depth.

A brief intermission of computerised effects (S4-LAZAR) leads into the EP’s most crushing track, Sons of the Mourning. Wild, very raw and very heavy. The moments of melody within it hardly much comfort but they are really inventive so very welcome.

The extra physical copies only tracks sees King Corpse deliver three older but re-recorded tracks; The Count, Sleepless and Swamp Thing. All brilliant and all so very King Corpse, making the physical version of this EP a required purchase.

King Corpse – Sacred Crimson Full Track Listing:

1. Exhumation
2. Drowning
3. Climb My Bones
4. S4-LAZAR
5. Sons Of Mourning
6. The Count
7. Sleepless
8. Swamp Thing

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