Sundowner return with »Cesspool«, 3rd album of poisoned blues and sludge-soaked hostility; first single »Intoxication Blues« streaming now!
Adelaide, Australia based sludge metal collective Sundowner return with their third album, »Cesspool«, scheduled for release on October 15th, 2026 via Disdain Records.
Listen to a brand new single »Intoxication Blues«, the first taste of the forthcoming album!
Tracklist:
01. The Deep
02. Golden Skinned Gods
03. Grave Wax
04. Intoxication Blues
05. Bleach Sniffer
06. 7 Shades Of Shit
07. Complete And Utter Ruin
08. Unwilling Subjects
09. Water Torture
10. Pond Scum
Courtesy of Viral Propaganda PR:
Three years after »Lysergic Ritual« dragged listeners through a feedback-soaked wasteland of nihilism and decay, Adelaide sludge merchants Sundowner are back with »Cesspool«, their third full-length and first release through Melbourne’s Disdain Records.
If the title offers any indication of what awaits, don’t expect things to have become any prettier.
Across ten new tracks, Sundowner take the caustic, slow-burning sludge that has defined them since 2021 debut »Guns, Knives And Tyre Irons« and push it into even more punishing territory. NOLA-inspired blues metal, corrosive riffs, suffocating grooves and bursts of hardcore violence collide in a record built to soundtrack a world going up in flames.
The band explain: “»Cesspool« continues on with our brand of sludge, further melding influences from the classic ’90s pioneers of the genre through our own lens out of Adelaide, South Australia.”
For Sundowner, that lineage has always been clear. The poisoned blues of EyeHateGod, the ugliness of Iron Monkey and Buzzov•en, and the smoke-filled grooves of Weedeater remain embedded in their DNA. But »Cesspool« isn’t interested in simply recreating the past. Instead, those influences are fed through Sundowner’s own distinctly Australian strain of hostility.
The album also sees Sundowner reunite with the production team behind »Lysergic Ritual«. After handling virtually everything themselves during the band’s early years, Sundowner brought Jason Fuller of Goatsound Studios into the fold to mix their second album, with Dav Byrne of Iridium Audio handling mastering.
For »Cesspool«, they returned to the same team, but with one simple objective: push everything further.
“We went with the same production team as our last album, but pushed everything further for a more punishing and abrasive sound.” Says the band.
That escalation can be felt throughout »Cesspool«. Intoxicated blues riffs stagger into walls of feedback; lumbering grooves give way to sudden eruptions of punk aggression; and the band’s familiar mid-tempo swing remains buried beneath enough dirt and distortion to make cleaning it up a lost cause.
Across its ten tracks, »Cesspool« doubles down on everything Sundowner do best: filthy blues, crushing grooves, abrasive riffs and pure sludge-soaked hostility. It’s heavier, nastier and more punishing, without straying from the band’s uncompromising roots.
Vinyl pre-orders available now at: disdain-records.com
Pressed in 4 different colour variants:
• Water Torture Blue
• Pond Scum Green
• Grave Wax Grey
• Bleach Sniffer White
FFO: EyeHateGod, Iron Monkey, Buzzov•en & Weedeater
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well