Oakland sludge practitioners BRAINOIL – featuring current and past members of Deathgrave, Laudanum, Graves At Sea, Stormcrow, Grimple, and Watch Them Die, among others – have booked a pair of Pacific Northwest appearances this May which will find them sharing Read More …
“Describing Singularity To Extinction as misanthropic would be an understatement; abrasive guitar tones and vocals combined with glacially slow tempos put BRAINOIL‘s latest in the same league as Dystopia, Grief, and Noothgrush.” — Decibel Magazine The Oakland sludge alchemists in Read More …
“Formed 20 years ago, BRAINOIL exemplifies what sludge and doom meant during its original creation –misanthropic, hateful, unrelenting and, without fail, totally and completely brutal.” — Revolver Singularity To Extinction, the impending new full-length from Oakland sludge bringers BRAINOIL — Read More …
Long-running Oakland sludge practitioners BRAINOIL –featuring within its ranks current and past members of Deathgrave, Laudanum, Graves At Sea, Stormcrow, Grimple, and Watch Them Die among others — will unleash their Singularity To Extinction full-length this October via Tankcrimes. Their Read More …
Bay Area-operated Tankcrimes offers up another offering from the label’s hometown sludge heroes, BRAINOIL, with the first-ever CD release of the band’s decimating Death Of This Dry Season album. Initially released on vinyl and digital platforms in the Summer of Read More …
Oakland trio, BRAINOIL, spew their own hyper-hellish brand of riff-soused, misanthropic sludge. With members having collectively done time in Laudanum, Stormcrow, Watch Them Die, Destroy!, Dead Language, Grimple, Pig Heart Transplant and more, BRAINOIL conjure the sounds of broken dreams Read More …
Oakland-grown BRAINOIL manifest true sounds of suffering churning out their own brand of heavy-as-fuck, riff fanatical sludge. As long time contributors to the underground punk and metal scenes with members having collectively done time in Laudanum, Stormcrow, Watch Them Die, Read More …
This September, Tankcrimes will reissue the debut full-length from Oakland-born punishing sludge power trio, BRAINOIL. As long time contributors to the underground punk and metal scenes with members having collectively done time in Laudanum, Stormcrow, Watch Them Die, Destroy!, Dead Read More …
This week the extreme metal cultivators at 20 Buck Spin officially announce the label website’s new listening page. Here the public can stream nearly the entire label’s expansive back-catalog for free, including their latest priority releases like the low-end old-school Read More …
Today, prominent website Brooklyn Vegan is hosting a stream of “Gravity Is A Relic,” the second track, and first public display of turmoil captured on BRAINOIL‘s upcoming second album, Death Of This Dry Season. BRAINOIL‘s sludge rips with up-tempo crust-inspired Read More …