Knowing how to make listeners feel legitimately uncomfortable is an underappreciated skill in extreme music. It’s not about being heavier, weirder or more gleefully gruesome than the bands around you. Understanding the intricacies of making abrasive sound and harsh reality corkscrew listeners’ ears or cheese-grater under their skin is a subtler art. South Coast sludge collective Believe In Nothing nail it on this soul-scourging debut.

Formed in Eastbourne in 2023, a little seaside personality can be gleaned from an abstract album cover that looks like a half-rotted heart dredged up on an anchor chain. Their first show in early 2024 was an unplanned affair: a spilling of their guts at local pub The Eagle without any songs written. Finished compositions maintain that sensibility, with the

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