Dirtmother Post “Plinko”; Self-Titled Debut Out March 8
The roots of Arkansas sludge metallers Dirtmother trace back to 2006, as will happen, but it’s still their debut album that’s set to release on March 8. Release show is the same night. To be issued by the band, Dirtmother‘s Dirtmother follows a 2023 regrouping and brings together players known for their work in Deadbird, Mud Lung and others. Their first audio showcase from the album — a four-minute teaser single obviously named “Plinko” in honor of the coolest game on The Price is Right — is a vicious reminder of the nasty turn Southern heavy took right around the turn of the century, when the lessons of Eyehategod, or Buzzov*en, Grief and so on, seemed to be taken up by screamy riffers with harsh intent and more aggressive underpinnings of metal emerged alongside the punker roots of the genre.
It’s something of an oldschool sound, is what I’m saying, but the truth is that even when there was a lot of it happening — and right around 2005/2006 that kind of waned and post-metal picked up a more atmospheric slack, for better or worse — sludge metal has never been the cool thing. There are microtrends within the correspondingly micro genre, but even in the days when Emissions From the Monolith was nestled into the Midwest teaching a generation of listeners how to make and embrace heavy music, sludge was an outsider thing. It remains one now, and “Plinko” revels in that. I look forward to hearing the rest of the album.
Info is minimal, but you get the audio below and that’s the thing. Have at it:
The song Plinko, from Dirtmother’s self-titled album debut, available March 8th 2025. Sludge, Blues Doom, from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Birthed in 2006, Reformed in 2023. Featuring current members of Mud Lung, and Liquid Courage. Former members of Deadbird, Deadeyejack, Sinking South.
Album mixed and Mastered by Sabin Hice.
Recorded by Mason Gills at Huntsville Road Studios.
DIRTMOTHER Album Release Show
Saturday March 8th
w/ Grand Inquisitor & Ghost Hollow
Waystone Pizza Co.
1200 Garland Ave Fayetteville AR
8pm $10 All Ages
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1544499859463756
Band photo by Austin.g123.
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