Funeral Rain Press Corps

Genres: Doom, Sludge
Label: Anthropic Records

One of my favorite labels has sent me a shiny new record! And it’s on transparent green vinyl! And it’s a fucking MONSTER of a record too!

Needless to say, I was pretty stoked to give this a spin, even on my asshole of a record player that doesn’t seem to want to send sound to the speakers properly. And for some reason, maybe because it understood the awesomeness of the vinyl, the speakers were sounding great. Thank you record player. Thank you.

Now, on to the review!

Side A is Philly’s Sadgiqacea, facestomping their way through two tracks (“The Great Divide”, “Avianizer”). Doom as doom can doom, these guys are so fucking awesome. I thought their older tracks on Bandcamp were great, but these two songs throw those into the mud. If you’re into stuff like Five Will Die, Black Tusk, Fight Amp, Bison B.C., and the Side B band Grass, you should check these guys out. If you don’t know what I’m talking about when I mention those bands, think of an angry Black Sabbath with Henry Rollins getting punched in the face by Justin Broadrick as the vocalist. 10 out of 10.

Side B is another Philly doom as fuck band, who continue to kick the shit out of their listeners and amps after Sadgiqacea leave off, who they also follow in the same vein musically. I feel sorry for stages and moshers that these guys play for, because if this is indicative of all their stuff (my first time hearing Grass), they destroy shit. Bleeding ears, noses, and knuckles all around. 10 out of 10.

Math should be obvious here. 10 out of 10.

Sadgiqacea on Facebook.
Grass on Facebook.

The following is a message from Shannon, owner/operator of Anthropic Records:

Dear Friends, Supporters, Listeners, Community Members,
The band Sadgiqacea had their tour van parked on 13th and Carpenter in South Philadelphia today when it was stolen around the hours of 12-7pm.  Everything they owned was in the van including all of their merch and gear. Total estimated loss of gear and merch is about $8,500. I am including a link to the phillymetal.com post where a list of their stolen items are posted. If there is anything you can do to help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for your time and energy.

Peace and Love,
Shannon

Messageboard Link

Like the message board post says, please re-post this on your own sites, blogs, Facebook, YouTubes, even MySpace, whatever. Let’s first and foremost get Sadgiqacea their gear back, and hopefully in the process get the assholes who stole it a bigger criminal record.