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After 2 well-received EP’s, Deceit and Misery is the debut full length by English doom duo Iron Slug. With an incredibly robust and authentic doom style, our boys from Kent, the Garden of England, have slammed home a 5 track, 38 minute album that just reeks of riffs and a tone that eats you from the inside out.

Opening track, ‘A Calming Turmoil’ is blast. It opens with a screeching feedback laden intro that evolves into an ominous riff before one of the 2 ‘Will’s’, this one is surnamed ‘Rayner’, stretches his vocals as the track itself expands. The riffs, again from ‘Rayner’, groan with groove and it is a great introduction to the album.

‘Love Retires After Night’ follows with its big, doomy, sludgy riff that gets the head nodding for the first time. But it is, perhaps, the 2^nd of the ‘Will’s’, this time ‘Bond’, that impresses with understated drums that feature one of my favourite things to hear on a song, judicious use of cymbals. ‘Rayner’s’ raspy vocals remind me of somebody, I couldn’t figure it out – one time I thought he may sound like Ricky Warwick, but I was probably mistaken.

application of drums, Iron Slug do their best to batter you like a Mars bar.

Deceit and Misery is delightfully heavy – ‘Graceless Bodies’ is again, groove-laden sludge, but it is the vocals that carry the track. ‘Die the Same’ is more reliant on the understated drums that benefit the album throughout, and the approach has more of a stoner rock feel than the sludge/doom of the previous tracks.  

Finally, the last track is upon us. ‘Ritualistic Feeling’ closes the album out with a degree of style. The riffs pound at you, the tone would ask you if it was ok to take your daughter out on a date. It is almost perfection, it delivers the album with an unwavering conviction that dares you to criticise it.Iron Slug have arrived and they are here to stay.

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