I feel No JOY! I see No LIGHT! I see No HOPE! I feel No HAPPINESS! All I can hear is the suffocating despair of the new STOMACH album Parasite which comes out on Oct 20th via Hibernation Release. As I listen to this HEAVY AF band debut, I realize that they have created a soundtrack to the turmoil that this world is facing right now and beyond. Inside their slowing-moving Sludge Death Hymn “Tooth Decay,” I can hear the torment that my ancestors must have felt during the Transatlantic Slave Trade or while they were being held against their will at the Cape Coast Castle. The torment-laden song “OCULAR MIGRAINE” speaks to the pain that I’m feeling as I see so many human beings slaughtered just for existing. STOMACH has created a Sludge record full of fucked-in-the-head riffs that make this genre SICK AF! I’m beyond stoked to be sharing this grim record with y’all in full below! Hurt people hurt people, and bleak people manifest sludge albums that will stand the test of time!
Parasite is STOMACH‘s first album… It’s heavy, it’s dark, and it’s honest. I dove into a plethora of hellholes to pull this content to the surface – the bleakness and negativity contained within is open to interpretation, but I also hope it paints a pretty dark picture. It’s also a vision fully realized in comparison to the earlier recordings of the past few years – if the first and second demos were us cautiously dipping our toes into the water, this full-length is us taking a plunge deep into the ocean with hopes of drowning.
John Hoffman
