Portland, Oregon sludge metal monsters
Trees
returned with
Sickness In
, their third full-length of slow-motion heaviness. Like their first two albums,
is made up of two epic movements, and like the swampy and formless metal drudgery that made up their earlier work, the sounds here are slowed to a pace that makes the songs nearly indiscernible from noise. 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.