It took Church of Misery four years to release their fourth CD titled Thy Kingdom Scum. CoM are a quartet from Japan that combines elements of doom, stoner and NOLA sludge in a fascinating way. They ass to this an incredibly authentic seventies low fuzz feeling that won me over instantly. Foremost I am impressed by the dynamic production that helps this album to develop its sound structures even more. Most of the music is kept in mid-tempo, but the production is so fuzz and raw, the grooving melodies all so evolved and involving that I hardly can stop listening to this album at the moment. The whole album is much the same all the way through, but there is hardly a dull moment. Picking up the heaviness of Sabbath, introducing the likes of Down, Sleep and Grand Funk into the mix this lot are sonic roller coasters of ghoulish abysmal sounds. CoM now have their familiar trademark of at least one cover song per album. This time around it's heavy organ prog rock band Quatermass' “One blind mice” of their debut; Rainbow once covered a song “Black sheep...” by this obscure band. Compositions, arrangements and production sound just right on this album, probably the best ever done by this amazing live band. I know the year is only half, but I have already a strong feeling that this will be one of my fave albums of the year, and if you only want to buy one head bang album this year, buy Thy Kingdom Scum.