Servants of the Mist releasing 'Suicide Sex Pact' (stream it)

by Doug Moore

Now that the weather has settled into the cold-and-shitty groove that it’ll occupy for the next several months, the time is ripe for some bleak, depressing jams. To that end, we’re streaming the debut EP by Tampa sludge troupe Servants of the Mist over at Invisible Oranges. From our writeup:

This band is from Tampa, but the music they play is not “Southern sludge”; it involves few blues notes and fewer good-times vibes. This stuff has more in common both spiritually and harmonically with the bottom-feeding negativity of bands like Coffinworm and Lord Mantis, though Servants of the Mist ditch the dense death/black metal rhythms in favor of endless slow-motion chugs. The riffs feel a little directionless at first, but if you emotionally sink down to their level, they start to make sense. Smyth’s vocals catch the ear; the chewy tones and hard-fought grooves carry the weight.

Read the whole shebang on Invisible Oranges. Suicide Sex Pact comes out on December 10; it will be available for pay-what-you-want download via Servants of the Mist’s Bandcamp. Stream it below…