TORTOISE by Maliciouz

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TORTOISE SELECTED TOP ALBUM BY THE MONSTER RIFF TOP HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS of AUGUST 2025!
(https://monsterriff.com/2025/09/03/the-monster-riff-top-heavy-rock-albums-august-2025/)

"Our regular readers will already know that Maliciouz is up there with the favorites I just listed, and on his latest album Tortoise its astoundingly clear why. Maliciouz is a master of studio technique, eliciting a wall of crushing weight pouring out of my speaker cones like a thick river of cement. Like the animal the album takes its name from, Tortoise moves along slow and steady, methodically grinding the listener’s consciousness into a calm detachment from the material self. This record produces much of the same effect as a drone recording, creating a sonic cocoon of serene harmony and mental clarity."
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TORTOISE MAKES THE DOOM CHARTS AUGUST '25 PERORATION LIST!
(https://doomcharts.com/2025/09/19/doom-charts-peroration-august-2025/)

"...Tortoise plays like the tectonic shifting of the earth’s crust. To listen to Tortoise is akin to experiencing the slow, grinding decay of a planet across eons. There’s a stifling, claustrophobic quality to this album – almost as if the listener has been placed inside a pocket directly inside the earth’s lungs, ears ringing from screams of subterranean chaos. With a decent pair of headphones, the music itself sits upon the listener’s shoulders like a physical weight; like tangible mass pressing in on all sides. The album is dizzying, intoxicating, and nearly transcendental in its effect on the psyche much in the way Sleep’s Holy Mountain and Sunn O)))’s Life Metal albums are. This truly is music to guide listener’s to the next plane of psychological existence..."
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LOW+SLOW+LOUD

Mojave Desert Funeral Sludge.

If you know the place then you know why this music was birthed there.

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