When I say “industrial-strength doom-riff-dub,” you say THE BUG! This Belgian producer just released his new record Machine via Relapse Records earlier this month — get it here. I’m used to dub being a sound that uplifts me, and takes me out of harsh reality into some universal space. But The Bug makes dub that gets so deep and heavy it feels more like being crushed in the machinery of endless production and consumption. The bass is crushing, the electronics are droning, and all throughout his songs there are sounds that rain down on me like razorblades. This is dub that wants to push me and pummel me, come down on me like a sonic assault of my senses. With Machine, The Bug has made a heavy metal album that takes the genre name literally, as it pounds my skull like an automated sledgehammer. Relapse has also released Machines I-V, a limited vinyl collection of his five Machine EPs — pick that up here. Now let The Bug’s Machine thunder in your ears like an industrial dub nightmare, and check out the video for his new single “Deep in a Mud Ft. MAGUGU”…
The album detonates apocalyptic dread-tech mutations of crushing intensity, fusing a unique new strain of futuristic dub with deadly deep electronics and killer bass riffs worthy of the heaviest metal.
