Mannheim, Germany’s most damaging sludge/doom metal troupe returns with album number four, their most putrid yet. Carrier transfers the contagion classified as BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS into the population with more than fifty minutes of purely sadistic aural punishment through six massive tracks, including a Hellhammer cover. This aggressive pollutant has been magnified in its attack by the hand of mastering engineer Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, rendering it incredibly deadly. Thrill-seekers who prefer the more slow-motion apocalyptic attacks of Grief, Grime, Corrupted, Ufomammut, Graves At Sea, Burning Witch, labelmates Obelyskkh and the like should undoubtedly prioritize Carrier.

Upon the completion of Carrier late in 2015, BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS vocalist Malte Seidel issued, “Carrier is the result of a band being in a constant state of deterioration. Doing a record is a very unpleasant and harmful process for us. Creating Negative Black already was a nightmare, but with Carrier the understanding of the term nightmare needs to be expanded. This is not being said to play the ‘tension and dissent create great art’ card. This album is not art. This album is not musicianship. This album is simply the album that we were able to do under the current circumstances while sometimes asking ourselves if a split-up would not be the better option.”

Imported from Germany, the CD version of Carrier comes in a 4-panel mini gatefold. [Exile On Mainstream]