Boasting a nasty sound and even nastier attitude, New York slingers Komondor crotch-thrust out of the gate with a collection of sonically cruel headfuckery they’re calling A Giant is Coming and the Giant is Going to Kill You. Their tunes, available for biting into on any number of internet platforms, are short bursts of sludgy ultra-aggression, bent angular by their riffs and made ugly and mean by drum thuds and throaty growled vocals. The longest track hits five minutes, but most are around three, which tells me Komondor have a formula down they’re working from. As I’m new to the band, I dig the novelty.

I’m reminded in listening of the sludge-laden righteousness of Dopefight, who are my current obsession when it comes to this brand of bombast, but Komondor‘s guitar-work is more spindly, not as thick. That said, the plod of “The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist” is utterly satisfying in both the weird and the doomed departments in a way Dopefight doesn’t even attempt to be, and as A Giant is Coming and the Giant is Going to Kill You plays out, there seem to be more quirks at play than one might initially think. Still, very angry, very mean and very heavy. Good for isolation, bad for a party, probably killer when I’m drunk at the show. No complaints. Welcome to the radar, dudes.

Stream the album via the Bandcamp player below and get angry. Go here to make a purchase.

Tags: Komondor, New York, Unsigned bands

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