On their second album, the New Zealand group of Meth Drinker continue brewing noxiously harsh sludge, with grinding guitar feedback, thrumming bass reverb, and guttural vocals gnashing at the words. The track titles do most of the imagery direction due to the unintelligible singing, with names like “Convulsion”, “Catalepsy”, and “Narco Terror” lending things an impression of asylums and drug abuse. A couple of spoken-word sections break out of the wailing strings with surprising sharpness, and the album as a whole achieves an unnerving flow of oppressive texturing.
Scrambled Brains 