Sourvein

Ghetto Angel

Dark Reign Recordings 2007

North Carolina's Sourvein dishes out dirty and sludgy doom metal with a mean southern vibe.  Certainly not for the faint of heart.  At times this four song EP reminds me of Eyehategod with is pitch black darkness and tar thick sludge coating each song.  Like being beat down with a pipe in a back alley, Nightwing bruises the listener with toxic thick guitar riffs.  Slow motion rhythms and grimy grooves pounding out punishment on my ears are at the core of Septic Werewolves.  Doldrums sways ever so slowly in the breeze like creosote treated tree trunks, bending and reeking with a slimy oil indicative of the cancerous corruption within.  Picking up the tempo ever so slightly, D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. adds a southern rock underbelly to this putrid corpse.  Hate-filled and corrosive layered vocals from T-Roy burn with the subtlety of a blast furnace.  Sourvein create black as tar pitch atmosphere's with their style but in the end some of the effect is lost as it is not tremendously memorable for anything other than the heroin aftermath feeling you are left with when the EP finishes.  More time should be spent on creating memorable riffs as they already have a memorable mood.