Batillus: Concrete Sustain

The bulk of “Rust”, the fifth song on the new album from New York heavy metal hoarders Batillus, is pure pit invocation. The quartet falls in behind Willi Stabenau’s initial bass rupture and powers through an up-tempo crunch, with singer Fade Kainer growling in time above the punch. Most of the song follows this format, but tucked strangely between these parts are brief lugubrious impasses that steal the momentum. On first listen, these short drones play out like such shocking...

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