A little bit of caveman roars and screams, abrasive and sludgy riffs, groovy rhythms and some nods towards black-metal make up the main ingredients for the debut album from Hazzard’s Cure. This four-piece band from Bay Area plies the same type of raucous and caustic sludge that acts like Buzzoven and High on Fire revolutionized, blending Sabbath-driven grooves with some hardcore punk nihilism and layering it with some deranged and tortured vocalizations.
Things get underway with “Psilocybin”, weaving a head-nodding and sludgy rhythm that recalls the powerful impetus of High on Fire, and then midway abruptly blows into some rabid thrash attack that pays homage to the early days of the Bay Area thrash boom.
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