Let's discuss Fleshpress. A band I've long held in high regard, they remain one of the most original and forward thinking bands and prove that you can do sludge and be atmospheric and experimental without it collapsing into "post-metal" pretentiousness. Following their releases has made for fascinating, at times trippy but always rewarding listening. Even their earliest material when they were at their most explicitly New Orleans influenced stood out due to the experimental ambient tangents which would only become more prominent on
Wörm Dirges.
The sound got even rawer on
III: The Art of Losing All where a black metal influence came to the forefront. Excellent vocals on that album.
The sludge, black metal and ambient collided on the mighty
Pillars, the bands magnum opus and a benchmark album for the genre.
Acid Mouth Strangulation emits a deranged psychedelia. The soundtrack to an acid horror film.
If it weren't obvious, the band is on their own planet and by the time the brilliant
Tearing Skyholes came around, they'd long since defined any attempt to pigeonhole them to just one sound. No other band writes like this. (Song is actually "Floating Paranoia").
The same can be said of
Hulluuden muuri, yet another slight tweak to the sound but retaining that singular quality all their recordings have.
And seriously, the band name is Fleshpress. That's metal as fuck.