Originally released in 1999, when doomsday was still tantalizingly close, Apocalypse Damnare (clever!) is a forked tongue-in-cheek epic of slug-crawl doomrawk, full of hiccupping death-on-downers vox, wavy sheets of lo-fi distortion, and almost completely flat-lined metal riffs. To be honest, this sounds an AWFUL LOT like a 45 slowed down to 33 RPM – or 16, if you’ve got granny’s turntable. Does this sound like fun to you – an hour’s worth of a narcoleptic cookie monster spewing his guts up at the wrong speed? Cuz I don’t know, I feel like life’s too short for no-punchline gags like this. But hey, maybe I’m just not doom enough to get it*. Suffice to say, Rigor Sardonicus make Sleep sound wide-awake.