The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood (2010)

Today we have one of the weirdest albums we have received in the last few years with The Body’s “All the Waters….”. This band combines Drone / Sludge Metal with a bunch of random shit creating a very enthralling atmosphere unlike anything you have heard before.

Since their opening track “A Body”, you know you will be in for quite the experience. This song features angelic voices for around 7 minutes and then it transforms into a mix of heavy sludge riffage, angelic voices and deranged screams. The album pretty much continues in the same weird fashion with the drone-like “A Curse” and then it just keeps getting weirder and weirder with “Empty Hearth”.

Most of the album consists of powerful and slowly painful riffs with deranged screams and samples or different elements to give a unique feeling to each song. The underlying foundations of The Body’s music can be said to be Drone and Sludge Metal, but this album does not feel as slow as the Drone releases we have heard before or as ‘fast paced’ as the common Sludge releases we get from labels like Southern Lord.

The last track of this release “Lathspell I Name You” nicely summarizes what all this musical experience has been about and this is probably the most ‘straight forward’ song of this whole release.

Released on CD by At A Loss Records, we find much respect and courage in this label to release such a peculiar release. We love anything that is weird and borders in the lands of insanity, and “All the Waters…” is just right there. We highly recommend this album if you like genre-bending mind-blowing music that only happens once in a while.

Release: May 3rd, 2010

Country: USA