Coltsblood/Un - Split

For the longest time, I resisted splits.  The reason, I think, is that I wanted more music from bands, not less, and splits inherently feature less music from each band than an LP or (usually) an EP would.  "But Durf," you're saying, "Even though you get less music from each band, you're getting music from two bands! And besides, isn't something better than nothing?" Reader, I hear you, and I never said it was a good reason.  Like many things in my life, it could be explained by the fact that I am, quite frankly, an idiot a lot of the time.  But that is the past, because I have come around on splits.  It started two years ago with the incredible Chrch/Fister split, then continued on last year with Eye of Solitude/Marche Funébre release.  I actually purchased two Panopticon splits, one with Falls of Rauros, the other with Waldgeflüster.  They're good!  Great, even.  Basically everything I thought about splits was incorrect, and I am now more than willing to give them a listen, especially when they feature two bands that get me all tingly.  Such is the case with the new split between Coltsblood and Un.

Eye of Solitude / Marche Funébre - Split

I used to not be too big on splits.  I think that 's because I thought I wasn't getting enough music; usually a track or two from each band adds up to around 20 minutes, and I tend to want more, because I am a greedy American.  Lately though, I've been coming around, helped by some longer splits; there was the fantastic CHRCH/Fister split from last year, in addition to this year's Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard/Slomatics release Totems.  Giving splits - or at least doomy splits - a chance was beginning to pay off!  So obviously when the new split from Eye of Solitude and Marche Funébre hit the ol' Töp inbox, I was going to check it out.

Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard/Slomatics - Totems

Hello and Happy New Year from the Töp!  I hope your New Year's Eve revelries were full of all the drunken debauchery (or sleep) that you could ever have wanted, and that the first week of 2018 has been all you ever wanted.  We here at Brutalitopia Midwest HQ in Chicago rang in the new year with aplomb, and have been hungover ever since; it's nice to have an excuse besides laziness to pin on such a long delay between posts!  But now we're back, and ready to go with what promises to be another killer year for metal.  Our first review out the gate is a split from two of the UK's finest stoner bands, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard and Slomatics.  It's called Totems, and I'll go ahead and spill the lede and say it's one groovy fucking trip.