THE BEST OF 2017: The Top 6 of the 666 Pack Review 2017

By: Nikos Mixas

Artwork By: Joshua M. Wilkinson

If you’ve been paying attention, the 666 Pack Review is an abbreviated review column mostly focused on very new bands or bands that have submitted demo material to THE SLUDGELORD.  The basic premise is that 6 bands are critiqued using only 6 words and on a scale from 1 to 6(66).  What you see below is the best of the year for the 666 Pack Review.  Congrats and hails to those bands that made the list! 

6). Sparrowmilk - “Articles of Separation” (Cleveland, Ohio) (April 2017)

Instrumentals usually bore me, this didn’t. 

5). Dawn on Sedna - “Our Sky Has Changed” (Viareggio, Italy) (February 2017)

Some good sludge right there Sludgelord! 

4). Dwoom - “Pale Mare Demo MMXVII” (Sundsvall, Sweden) (June 2017)

Better than most signed doom bands.

3). Cacus  - “Dirty filthy godless” (Copenhagen, Denmark) (March 2017)

 Iron Monkey could learn from them…

2). Elder Devil - “Graves Among The Roots” (Fresno, USA) (July 2017)

Angriest submission of all the 666s! 

1). Five The Hierophant - “Over Phlegethon” (London, UK) (September 2017)

Most original of the Sludgelord offerings.

Band info: Sparrowmilk|| Dawn On Sedna|| Dwoom|| CACUS || Elder Devil || Five the Hierophant

6 NEW BANDS: Nikos Mixas' 666 Pack Review June 2017

The 666 Pack Review

 

It’s the June edition of TERR0R’s 666 Pack Review!  Metal festivals are kicking off all over the globe and what better way to celebrate? By listening to…well, you guessed it, more metal!!!  If you’re new to this, each and every month we handpick 6 review submissions and critique them by only using 6words, then we rate them on a scale from 1 to 666!  Check out our awesome rating scale below: 

1 – Hey, at least you guys are more credible than Five Finger Death Punch at the moment...

2 – Now that it’s summer, at least your friends will have less of an excuse for not checking out your band.

3 – TERR0Rmade it through the whole song!  Congrats!

4 – You’re good enough to secure a spot right before the touring headliners. 

5 – Not many things are better than going to the beach or having ice cream on a hot summer’s day, but             your band just made that list. 

666 – TERR0Rthinks your band is so hot; we’re referring to you to Satan himself to keep those temps up in hell!   

Some of the best metal festivals are kicking off this month and it seems like everyone is on tour.  Summer is also prime time to record and submit your demos and TERR0R is awaiting them.  TERR0Ris a picky listener…and doesn’t care what you think of his opinions….

 

Dwoom  - “Pale Mare Demo MMXVII” (Sundsvall, Sweden)    Rating: 666

Modern day Candlemass worship, doom on!

 

Former Worlds- “Photos of Eve IX-XVI” (Minneapolis, USA)   Rating: 4

Epic, spacey and grim with nightmares.

 

Sarattma - “Inner Spaces” (Philadelphia, USA)   Rating: 5

 

Hints of Mastodon, Meshuggah and calculus…

Monoceros - “Space Dungeon” (Canberra, Australia)   Rating: 3

For fans of Sleep and boredom.

Weird Tales- “Weird Tales” (Warsaw, Poland)   Rating: 2

The Polish do black metal better.

Dead Level– “Dead Level” (Belem, Para, Brazil)   Rating: 2

Studied the book of Iommi riffing.

Band info: Dwoom || Former Worlds || Weird Tales