The third offering of Portland’s Trees, “Sickness In” is a sonic nightmare of titanic proportions. This two-track monster opens with sinister groans awash in shrieking feedback and evolves slowly into a hellish maelstrom of megalithic drone metal heavy enough to knock planets out of orbit. While there isn’t a lot of excitement or bombast, that sort of thing isn’t always necessary for music to be effective, either. No, Sickness In gets the job done all the same: it’s murky atmosphere and doom-sodden drones pulverize listeners into the broth of oblivion. Simplistic, yet heavy, Sickness In looms ponderously over the dimming horizon, strangling and suffocating all beneath.
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