Describing Mistress’s music is a very hard thing to do, since they haven’t restricted themselves to just making sludgecore, which only represents the basis for their dirty sound. You can hear some grindcore, punk, thrash, power and true doom metal among others, which makes Mistress a band with a lot of variety in it. The vocals consist of extremely nasty dirty screams from which no actual word can be detected by me, just like sludge gods Iron Monkey did. The length of the songs is equally varying as the style in which they’re played, it goes from little over ninety seconds to over eleven minutes. You can probably guess which is a grindcore track and which sounds like doom metal from that I think.

 

Now for this re-release they’ve added two bonus tracks, being a cover of Metallica’s “Whiplash”  and a track called “Earth Died Screaming” of which I’m almost sure it is a cover. It’s not really something that makes this album worth buying again, since the sound quality isn’t that superb, but nice for those who aren’t in possession of this self-titled debut.

 

Goddamn this band is so hard to describe. But if you’re into real dirty sludgecore and you can appreciate some escapades towards other metal-related genres you’ve found heaven.