Heathen Tongues – Neurogenesis

 

 

Heathen Tongues – Neurogenesis
Self-released – 2026
Metal, Sludge, Crust, Instrumental
Rated: ***

Drums, guitar, a sample here or there and a whole lot of attitude! I guess Neurogenesis is what happens when two lunatics lock themselves in sound proof rehearsal room with the determination to combine crust punk, sludge, post-metal and all the distortion they can muster to make the walls extend outwards and start sweating blood! 

It’s Heathen Tongues’s debut, and the eleven minutes tear through the two tracks with huge riffs, bleak melodies, minor psychedelic detours and grooves that hit like a monster truck running entirely on bad intentions. As a two-piece Devin Mendoza and Shane Falkenhart sound ridiculously enormous! Did I mention that evil grinning monster truck yet? Recorded at The Band Cave (Blood Incantation, Wayfarer, Archspire, Cattle Decapitation) with Collin Ingram, mixed by Matt Bayles (Botch, Mastodon, Isis, Pearl Jam) at Red Room, and Mastered by Brad Boatright (discography so big it’s crazy) at Audiosiege; and all involved must have constantly been grinning from ear to ear. Teeth all bare! 

Neurogenesis! This is instrumental metal with teeth: aggressive, gloomy, expansive, and slightly unhinged. Raw, concrete crumbling and with a wrecking ball waiting just around the corner. For apparently, these two tracks are merely an appetizer… Their full album will be hitting the streets February 2027 and that will surely be one hell of a ripping trip! 

(Written by JK)

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