A glowing review from Noizze for the album The Scorching Gaze by Urzah. The new UK heavy metal band, who hail from the hipster city of Bristol, have apparently crafted an album in which…

The songs never give the listener a minute to rest, as they twist and turn through their ethereal cosmic shatterings, from crushingly heavy riffs, to heavenly angelic interludes, with lyrics that evoke the works of H.P. Lovecraft, gigantic in both scale and scope.

The YouTube headbanger sample track sounds great. If this is “sludge” metal (off-putting term), give me more of it. Just the thing for cruising around Providence in your Lovecraftmobile…

The album’s official release page is at APF Records and Bandcamp.

Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness movie, made at last… in Super Fan-O-Vision. 70 minutes of chuckles and cringes.

Regrettably there seems to be something wrong with the screen ratio on this YouTube upload, though. It’s slightly stretched upwards, at least for me. You may want to download it and then tinker with the ratio settings for playback in VLC Player.