Album Review: The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert

Doom metal band Earth team up with heavy bass producer The Bug, aka Kevin Martin, to deliver this low-slung album that grinds deep and heavy.

Themed around the idea of a Concrete Desert, this album offers ten instrumental visions of a futuristic post-apocalyptic world that bleakly contemplate the aftermath of destruction. Earth's deep distorted guitar drones and haunting twangy melodies collide with the intensity of The Bug's massive growling bass and electronic noise. The result is a thick, oozing, toxic, aural sludge. An unrelenting noise that's strangely evocative and wouldn't be out of place on the next instalment of Mad Max.