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Absolute clearing house for 90’s stuff here - the good, bad, ugly, and weird. You might want to take notice of this Cavity “Crawling” b/w “Perseverance” 7″ on Bacteria Sour. This one has a cool vellum cover, is on some colored vinyl, and is probably hand numbered and issued in some miniscule quantity. Cavity were a premier band in a somewhat extinct 90’s sub genre, 90’s Southern Sludge Metal(core). Maybe it’s not actually extinct, but it’s at least removed from hardcore more now. At one time this was an important part of any burrito punk’s diet, now, I’m not quite sure. I think it’s not quite as “in”, which is why you don’t really see anyone wearing Damad shirts anymore. Cavity were more or less a baby Eyehategod on their earliest releases like this one. Later on they got a little more rocked out and were less of a straight oozing sludge vibe, which would probably seem more annoying if a band today did it. You could tell they were originally involved in hardcore, mainly in how angry they sounded, the vocals are strangled and pushed to the max all the time, the music is more about being hard than catchy; straight-up Doom Metalers would just sound more stoned and not quite as aggro.

A classic way to start this kind of record is with a really quiet looped sound effect that’s kind of high pitched and abstract, then after like 30 seconds you kick into the lowest possible note (depending on tuning), with the drummer hitting extremely hard, and probably the vocalist doing a good ARRRGH. I can’t remember how Crawling starts but I bet it’s like that. Cavity had a few jams that took off like that. Another thing you had to be good at to play this style was feeding back. You want maximum feedback between every pause in every song and Cavity really had this in spades. Actually they were able to use it more effectively than most of their peers in my opinion because it seems at no point did they try and reel it in, even a little bit.

Anyway… Cavity, a Sludge Metal(core) favorite. Oh also that Hacksaw 7″ is worth your time if you’re a Swiz maniac.