Labels: Blind Date
Review by: Alex Deller
From the land of such monstrous entities as Godzilla, King Ghidora and Corrupted come Dot(.), trying to follow in all those oversized footsteps and wreak as much havoc as they can with their own brand of ponderous doom metal. This is heavy as heck with riffs hefted about like slabs of concrete, smoke-seared vocals alternating between a deep roar and a harsher scream as the songs draw themselves out like three-day migraines. Good as this might sound, there’s something about these four tracks that don’t quite hit the mark “” they tend to drag instead of gripping your attention in a stranglehold, struggling for breath and resting on the ropes when they really should be going in for the kill. The laborious blues-addled solo sections don’t do much to help, and the sense of depraved misery you get from listening to the likes of Eyehategod or Grief just isn’t present, meaning that for all its detuned malice the whole outing remains a touch too one-dimensional to really hit the mark.