If you were to approach me on the street one day and inform me that you thought that sludge metal does not, in fact, owe large parts of its very existence to punk and hardcore I would probably run away because you’d be a stranger who just ran up to me on the sidewalk and started talking to me about sludge metal. Let’s say, however, that I were someone who remained totally unphased after being accosted by vagabonds on the street. Were that the case and you ran up to me making the aforementioned point I would most likely spit … Continue reading A Sludgepunk Manifesto