Droner – Salt

 

 

Droner – Salt
Self-released – 2025
Rock, Grunge, Noise, Doom, Sludge, Metal, Drone
Rated: ***

They’re called Droner, hail from Bath, UK and are about to release their debut full-sized album Salt. And Salt is chock full, no less than fourteen tacks, and more than one hour of droning sludge grunge. Extremely biting and grating, and it will lead to you running razorblades across your tongue. Droner delivers a bloody mess, drilling into your brain with their continues acidic noise, and that in itself becomes the drone. Minimal in composition, the band seem experts in destroying beautiful momentary lulls with grunge noise that explode through every part of your being. There is no shame in coming clean about the fact that you struggle with Salt. It’s alright. And even though it might be the last place to look for it, but with a decent amount of time, you will hear there is peace to find within the stomping sludge noise. I don’t care if that statement gives you more glimpses inside my head than necessary, but Droner becomes something to latch on to whenever the rock is to prevalent or saturating you. It might be nothing for you, but it might as well be that lighthouse that signals you into the right port. Where ten ton heavy granulated mineral is waiting to bury you whole…

(Written by JK)

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