Nasdaq from Manchester and Mother Trucker from Birmingham are two juggernauts of instrumental music, combining heavy sludge and rhythmically playful post-rock to form this epic split. The Manchester instrumental trio mark their seventh year with their heaviest offering yet. Moving through passages of crushing doom, hypnotic melody and wrist-breakingly complex riff attacks, "Collateral (Damaged)" takes everything this prodigiously talented unit has done before and makes it bigger and better. Imagine a band that somehow manages to sound like Earthless, Owls, Don Caballero, Iron Maiden and Kyuss all in the space of one track and bring it all together to create a cohesive mind-altering, consciousness-expanding voyage to a higher plane. The juggernaut that is Mothertrucker mark their 13th year of their combination of Sabbath/Kyuss style hard riffs and the quiet menace of Slint and Mogwai, these new compositions are a sweet hellride into the heart of oblivion. Thick distortion, menacing atmospherics, head nodding tempo changes and rewarding climaxes...there's plenty to get lost in!
