Not exactly hot on the heels of the first Doomed Messiah, which I think came out in 2004, but what the hell, sludge takes time to congeal just right. This series covers the sights, sounds, and smells of the stoner crust/grind/sludge movement, all those way, way beyond doomed motherfuckers with the dreadlocks and drug problems and piles of Orange amps. It’s grisly business, and it takes a splatter-minded artist like Tom Denney to capture it in all it’s ear-pummeling, eye-gouging glory. Most of these bands are not the most visually arresting characters in rock n’ roll, so Denney makes up for it with montages, swirly editing, color-tinting, animation, and other subtle tricks that make for compelling footage, but never detract from the sonic maelstrom onstage. Highlights include a career-spanning clip of AC doing “Radio Hit” that shows Seth Putnam in his many varying stages of fatness, Debris, Inc. performing a punishing over of St. Vitus doomcult hit “Born too Late” with Wino himself guesting on vocals,  and a cool hardcore sex cartoon with cat-girls dildoing each other’s assholes. There’s also less pleasant-on-the-ears clips from bands with awesome names like Land of Minotaur, Weedeater, Starchild, and King Fire Goat, among others. A real psycho-head blowout here. It really makes you wonder what kinda damage this guy could do if he set his sights on less cult-bound bands.  _____________________________________________________

- Sleazegrinder