After ten years with Electric Wizard, Mark Greening (drums and piano) and Tim Bagshaw (bass) quit the band to form Ramesses. Tim is now playing lead guitar and Adam Richardson is the singer/bassist. Ramesses is a psychedelic space blues doom band with massive volume. Negative Reaction is doom/sludge with low tuned Sabbath riffage matched with Sleep's Jerusalem devasting intensity. Fans of Bongzilla, Grief, Sleep and Burning Witch need to hear this split CD.

From start to finish I haven't got one bad thing to say about this mini album...it's heavy and full of energetic mean doom. Negative Reaction is a great doom/hardcore metal band churning out the kind of doom you would hear from bands like Grief, Bongzilla or Eyehategod. Ramesses are plenty heavy, but they have taken doom to a different place - heavy psychedelic drenched doom sound that is more upbeat then Electric Wizard. It's almost a tease, but also a good sampler about what Ramesses and Negative Reaction are all about.

While curious about the Ramesses material, I was actually more excited about the new Negative Reaction songs on this. I love most of their recent output and these two songs do not disappoint. Excellent heavy hardcore crossed with doom.

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