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Is Sleep’s Dopesmoker still the heaviest album of all time?
Sort of like being slowly assaulted by a massage chair.
Khanate’s self-titled album seems fully uninterested in concepts such as “grooves,” “song structure,” and “sanity.” Shallow North Dakota’s Mob Wheel was bludgeoning. From all my listening, four contenders emerged: Boris’s Amplifier Worship, Hell’s Live at Roadburn, Bongripper’s Empty, and The Body / Thou’s collaboration Released from Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated. But the deciding factor is the drums, which are much higher in the mix on Roadburn than on Dopesmoker, which means I can feel the bass and tom.
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