Intronaut - Prehistoricisms (2008)^{Release ID: 6914}

I like this, I don't love it. I would give it a 3.75, but I'll round up for prosperity. This is the most "prog" of the sludge that I've listened to and I enjoy that. It's also has a bit of an alternative metal vibe at times as well with guitars that remind me of Tool or Deftones. I'm trying to ease up on my bias against sludge and albums like this help with that. It's still not a ride I want to take all the time, but i'm glad I rode it once. The instrumental bits where it does edge on the side of sludgier riffs are still boring to me especially the last song "The Reptilian Brain" where it does what you think of with sludge for 16:20. But many of the songs before that go the prog route and are much more enjoyable. Like the intro song "Primodorial Soup" is a decent short instrumental that works but also doesn't do the best job of telling where the album is going for me but is a pretty average sludge intro that is almost every album that I've heard on this journey to date. The middle is where it's interesting, but still hits everything expected of sludge.