Sickness In is the third album from Portland's most wretched, TREES. Following their similarly abject slabs of feedback-doused horror and quasi-formless dirge Lights Bane and Freed of This Flesh on Crucial Blast, the band again presents a two-song assault, each one roughly fifteen minutes in length, each a slowly rotting heap of droning slow-motion deathdoom riffs decomposing into clouds of black amplifier hum, high shrieking voices and tortured screams drifting against the glacial roar of smoking amp stacks and short-circuiting hardware. Where the previous album had TREES employing some interesting rhythmic chaos and longer stretches of ambient filth, this time around the band drops some of their most leaden, majestic riffs yet into their slow-mo filthstorm, massive saurian doom riffs slipping WAY out of the confines of 'groove' and deep into rumbling fields of charred ritualistic chanting and almost ABRUPTUM-like states of psychotic noise. Details Artist: Trees Country: United States Genre: Noise Doom Metal Year: 2012 Label: Crucial Blast Records Format: Digipak Catalogue no: CBR102 More info: External Track listing Cover Your Mouth Perish Review Steam trails of feedback, anguished vocals, and trudgingly slow drums all scrape by painfully, which will sound like a symphony of agonizing sludge majesty to anyone already in love with the catharsis of doom metal. - All Music 5/5
