Of End Times (Sludge/Doom Metal) by 71TONMANħ1TonMan combines the unsettling, reverberating horror of Primitive Man’s Immersion with Warcrab’s bloodcurdling brand of sludge, and just a hint of Crowbar’s distorted, bludgeoning fury. In these passages, the drums set a steady, almost hypnotic undercurrent, while the guitars take on a percussive quality, laced with a tremolo-like melodic quality that hints at a blackened edge to the sound. Shifting up through the gears, 71TonMan moves rapidly from a painstaking crawl to brisk trot-a sprint this is not-and the attendant rise in heart rate brings with it a small injection of melody. Showcasing this best are the back third of “Plague” and the first half of the album’s closing track, “Famine”. However, what sets this record slightly apart from the likes of a Body Void, are the shifts in tempo. Mesmerizingly slow, characterized by huge, distended guitars, sonorous, lethargic drum rolls, 71TonMan crawls forward, as vocalist K.K.’s cavernous roar bellows out across the ravaged landscape. Mainly holding territory at the slow, funeral doom end of the sludge spectrum (as opposed to the hardcore adjacent areas), Of End Times is abrasive. Now back with third full-length, Of End Times, will 71TonMan still take route one, an all-out, full frontal assault?Īrrayed over 39 minutes, 71TonMan deploys its troops riffs across just four tracks. Their last record, 2017’s Earthwreck, was an hour’s worth of rumbling, planet-shaking sludge, lifted by occasional forays into melodic death doom riffs (“Negative”). And this seems appropriate, as a sizeable, if ponderous, battle tank is a pretty good comparator for this doom/sludge outfit. Starting ‘small’, a 71TonMan is roughly equal to ten adult tyrannosaurus rex seven minke whales moving to my own favored species, two megalodons or one Leopard 2 tank, of the type recently pledged by Poland, Germany and others to Ukraine. Hailing from Wrocław, Poland, five-piece 71TonMan got me wondering, just how heavy would a human weighing 71 tons be? Leaving to one side the various questions around tons/tonnes and short tons (US) / long tonnes (UK) / metric tons/tonnes, 1 there is no doubt it would be … significant.
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