GIG PREVIEW: Ghostlimb, Dopefight and more @ The Albert, 3rd August

One of Brighton's best bands of all kinds, let alone metal are back from gigs with Eyehategod to support US hardcore band Ghostlimb at the Prince Albert on Wednesday 3rd August.

From the This One For The Crew Facebook

THIS ONE'S FOR THE CREW PRESENTS...

GHOSTLIMB
Intensely aggressive melodic hardcore from Los Angeles. Releases on Level Plane / Adagio 830

BLACK KITES
Discordant chaotic hardcore from New Jersey. Ex-You And I / The Assistant.

DOPEFIGHT
The best band in Brighton right now. Ridiculously heavy stoner doom back home after their shows with Eyehategod + Hang The Bastard.

RESURRECTIONISTS
Power Violence / screamo from Munster, Germany. Ex-Apoplexy Twist Orchestra. They totally destroyed The Hobgoblin last time they were over.

LENTIC WATERS
Ferocious, bleak hardcore from Germany. Ex-Ding Dong Dead. New LP out on Moment of Collapse / React With Protest.

BATTLE OF WOLF 359 -
Chaotic, metallic hardcore / screamo from Kent. Totally destructive. Catch them on this rare venture out of living room.

7pm [sharp!]
Wed 3rd Aug 2011
The Prince Albert
Brighton

£6

PREVIEW: Torche, Dopefight & Jovian @ The Prince Albert, Friday 26th

This Friday Brighton's Prince Albert hosts one of the heaviest gigs to the city will have seen for a long time as Florida's swampy sludge rockers Torche roll up and set about decimating amps and ears.  Support comes from two of Brighton's, if not the UK's most absorbing downtuned bands; stoned doom wizards Dopefight, who Lurker described as "without doubt a band whose potency lies in their uncanny ability to write some of the greatest sludge riffs I have ever heard." and the crawl-tempoed trance inducing Jovian. Jovian are like some Brighton supergroup consisting of, but not limited to, people who do or have once played in bands such as End the Agony, Terminal Outputs, Cat on Form, Charlottefield, Plague Sermon, Falling Boy and Davidd Winter.

Here's some clips to get you in the mood.

Torche - Healer




Dopefight - Babygoatsick




Jovian - Live @ The Cowley Club

Stoned In The Throne Room

Brighton's Dopefight are a blend of Bongzilla, Electric Wizard, Sleep, a bit of Iron Monkey and a whole bag of skunk. If that's sounds like a bit of a cliched description then this band suck it up and blow it right back in your face. The edge to this band is a healthy dose of none other than the dark goat, Satan himself. The four tracks on their myspace feature smoked out billowing bass fronted riffing set at stoned tempos, aggressive nicely guttural vocals and Satanic chanting. Hijos De Fumar mixes these up to especially potent effect and is rightly their lead track, displaying the full range of styles inherent to the genre and showing why it isn’t necessary to be trying anything too different to really hit the right tone and groove. Highlights from the other tracks include the drop out and restart in The Thrall that makes the stomach lurch; the fear-inducing, hellishly weird, not quite vocodered, distorted vocal of Somnia; and the changes in tempo of the 2 minute long Widow Smoke that get a bit frisky and flesh out their range nicely.

Brighton has produced some great downtempo sludge of late - Sloath, Old Mayor, S.E.P - and Dopefight are a worthy addition to the burgeoning bass scene. Awesome artwork too:




Their debut 7" is out on Corruption Recordings soon. Hit ‘em up:

MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/fightdopefight