The third album from Mannheim, Germany-based sludge devastators BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS, Negative Black surges with nearly eighty minutes of material. Captured and twisted into shape at the mighty Tonmeisterei Studio, Negative Black marks a new step for BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS. While the outfit already bears the reputation for unfurling some of the most destructive but still coherently-flowing sludge metal available, incorporating outside elements of crust, black metal and ambient/soundscape persuasion, Negative Black surges to even deeper caverns of auditory obliteration, pummeling you with painfully slow doom and finishing you off with acrid, harsh drones, and giving down-tempo a whole new meaning. The CD version comes in a matte-varnished 6-panel digifile. [Exile On Mainstream]