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ENDTIME
Impending Doom

Heavy Psych Sounds (2022)
Rating: 7/10

Hitting me like a tidal wave of syrup comes Swedish doomsters Endtime, a quintet from Uppsala who previously went by the name of Saturniids. What you get here on the band’s debut full-length album are five tracks of sickening sludge-filled nastiness under occult influence.

Opener ‘Harbinger Of Disease’ is simply lumbering pitch black doom, but bolstered by the sneering vocals of Christian Chatfield. I’d pair these guys with Los Angeles, California-based trio The Crooked Whispers. Not as sound-a-likes, but more for that nasty, nefarious edge they bring. None of the tracks grate or overstay their welcome, and I’m always a fan of simplistic doom over hipster stoned sludge.

‘ICBM’ is abit of a slow-burner, shifting slowly with those thudding drums, but the same could be said for the whole album. The band never shifts gears, remaining creeping, steady and, yes, sinister yet without gimmick, apart from the atmospheric organ.

Fans of dark, heaving doom metal will take to this as its quicksand is certainly inviting. The vocals remain as tortured shouts throughout too, so detractors may argue that the record is a bit one dimensional and I certainly wouldn’t oppose that opinion.

With Impending Doom, Endtime shakes foundations while never venturing from its path.

Neil Arnold

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