Dark realizations are the best…even better than epiphanies. Such was hearing Luddite Clone for the first time, and they grow ever better with every dose. They are essential brutality, and their debut 2000 release “The Arsonist And The Architect” [Relapse Records] is easily one of the BEST of the Year as well.
Luddite Clone is a beautiful disaster in action and intensity. Their sound verges the fiercest qualities of Death Metal, Hardcore, Grind, Metalcore, and Sludgecore. Mixing distortion, vicious growls, and heavy Psychedelic, sludgy guitars in tight and loopy rhythms is this New Jersey acta
