Doom, doom, doom. Metalheads everywhere have been embracing snail paced devastation, with a new wave of Sabbath worshippers popping up everywhere over the past few years. Just like anything else, there are some real outstanding bands and a ton of way shittier ones, in this case hardcore kids pretending or boring traditionalists choking the fun out of everything.

A nice break from bullshit and/or boredom is Brooklyn’s Batillus. Setting Batillus’ brand of heaviness apart are their smart use of textural electronic soundscapes that give their huge doom attack a bleak vibe that seems like the perfect post apocalyptic soundtrack.

If some Walking Dead shit happens, this is the first record I am listening too. Basically, Batillus is doing for doom what their black metal contemporaries (Nachtmystium, Nagaroth) have done, which is creating fertile ground between metal and electronic music that isn’t complete shit and adds another level of epicness to their craft.

In this case, it’s the band’s use of noise and industrial sounds that push them into fuck yeah! fist pumping in the air territory. On April 5th of next year the band is dropping its debut full length Furnace on Seventh Rule/Vendetta and it fucking destroys. Check out the live vid above to hear the new track “Uncreator” live at the Cake Shop. Chills.

- Move the Chains