Jumbo�s Killcrane live up to the sludge banner. It�s a nasty, ill-tempered album like a sour drunk on a Saturday night, not quite ready to pick a fight but eyeing the crowd and sizing up the potential victims. And when the band alternates between the simplistic, laboriously slow and the speedier, more technical, such as on album highlight �The Slow Decay,� you realize that the dirty tosspot isn�t as leaden and drunk as you originally assumed. In fact, you�d be better off if you just simply backed away and got the hell out. But if you did that, you wouldn�t be able to appreciate all that The Slow Decay has to offer.

The Slow Decay builds on the time changes, quirkiness, and heaviness of Carnival de Carne. I have listened to this at least a half a dozen different times since I got it, and with each listen I hear or pick up on something in the music I haven't heard before. This is a sick album that is heavier, sludgier, and bludgeons anything they have done. Buy this if you dig the heavy.

It definitely picks up where Carnival de Carne left off.. only grimier, angrier, sludgier, more distorted and mean. I'm really impressed with tthe band's growth from album to album.

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