photos by Britt Crowe
“STOMACH‘s comfort zone on Low Demon is your discomfort zone. As they exorcise their own fiends they introduce you to them, and leave ruin and wreckage in their wake…” – No Clean Singing
Chicago-based miserable sludge/doom henchmen STOMACH deliver their merciless second LP, Low Demon, now streaming in its entirety at No Clean Singing ahead of its street date this Friday through Hibernation Release.
STOMACH began as a duo featuring drummer/vocalist John Hoffman (Weekend Nachos, Ledge) and guitarist Adam Tomlinson (Sick/Tired, Sea Of Shit), who previously played together in the very first Weekend Nachos lineup. The duo released two demo tapes and their monstrous debut album, Parasite, prior to their upcoming second album, Low Demon, the band having since evolved into a live three-piece with the addition of bassist Kirk Syrek (Sick/Tired, Exalted).
Delivering their brand of punishing, sludge-laced doom to new lows, Low Demon arrives with over forty minutes across five dismal tracks of pure, sonic depravity. The record was recorded by John Hoffman during the winter of 2024 at The Pit II in Geneva, Illinois, and mixed and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios (The Body, Magrudergrind, Fugitive), with photography by Britt Crowe. With Low Demon, STOMACH has once again delivered an album of massive scope and sound cementing them amongst the very best in the sludge metal underworld.
Hoffman states, “Low Demon is a journey into a deeper, darker hell. With Parasite and the two demo tapes prior, I was unleashing a lot of demons, as I always do when I write music, but it was more raw. I wouldn’t call Low Demon raw at all. This is an attempt to combine some further artistry to create more of a nightmarish setting.”
Within their clinical dissection of the album, No Clean Singing writes, “The catastrophic gouging in the low end is immensely distorted and overpowering; what’s happening in the upper elevations sounds like the strings are screaming as they writhe. The groaning and droning vibrations feel like they’re going to loosen our teeth, and our bowels. Every now and then the drums make a countdown. Every now and then a ruined voice vomits up agony.”
Allow STOMACH’s Low Demon to devastate everything in earshot via No Clean Singing RIGHT HERE.
Low Demon will be released this Friday, July 18th, digitally and on both Black and limited Red LP pressings. Preorders are live at the Hibernation Release webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
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