And here we have the second release i picked up from Small Doses, Culver's "The Witches Ladder." Culver i know a little more about-this is the personal project of one of the guys in ultra death droners Mazuraan, who are simply fucking amazing. Totally misanthropic hateful sludge drone marches to some sort of unpleasant and torturous experience. So i had high hopes for Culver, especially hearing from various sources that this project was even more mean spirited and noisy. While that isn't what this particular recording is, it's fucking awesome. One piece of thick, pulsing unending molasses style drone for a perfect 17 minutes. As with the best drone pieces, if you listen closely and just get washed into the music, you'll hear all sorts of minute changes and little permutations swimming alongside the epoch swath of pulse, and it'll lift you to that nether region of brain activity where you just zone the fuck out. Masterful. Head pounding. Totally crushing, but very relaxing and peaceful in an ultra loud, trance sort of manner. I'm going to track down everything i can from Culver. This reminds me a lot of Growing's finest moments, when the guitars just keep going and going and going, endlessly recycling themselves in a washing machine hum of pure white auditory hypnotism. So damn good.
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