Review: Sunrot – The Unfailing Rope (Full album, 2023) | Sludge, post-metal

It’s ironic that we are featuring a band called Sunrot today, as most of us, at least those in the northern hemisphere, are in between heatwaves that make us feel like rotting inside, and it’s fitting that the band sounds like hot sand stripping your skin.

Loud and abrasive sludge in the camp of Thou and Vile Creature, The Unfailing Rope also plays a bit with a few blackened bits and some noise parts, not quite into Body Void territory of destructive pressure but kinda looking furtively towards it. Beach music, this is not.

But you aren’t at the beach anyway, are you? If you are like most people, you are working a job that either only exists to keep you busy and tired or if you actually do something useful it’s not according to people’s needs but to fill quotas, all so you can afford to pay the airconditioning bills and stay alive. Or even worse, you are an underpaid, overworked and overstressed worker in the tourist industry trying to plug financial holes for the whole year in four months. You know that beach restaurant worker in a resort town locals can no longer afford to live in, the one the yuppie fucks undertipped because their mojitos were late during the noon rush? This is what’s playing inside their head.

⚔️ SUNROT ⚔️

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