US experimental doom/sludge artists Mizmor & Hell teamed up for a collaborative album »Alluvion«; out now via Gilead Media!

Portland, Oregon based experimental doom/sludge artists Mizmor and Hell teamed up for a collaborative album, »Alluvion«, which was just released on April 4th, 2025 via Gilead Media.

Tracklist:
01. Begging To Be Lost
02. Vision I
03. Pandemonium’s Throat
04. Vision II

Courtesy of Gilead Media:

The stories of Mizmor and Hell are, for all intents and purposes, inextricably intertwined. For twenty years A.L.N. (Mizmor) and M.S.W. (Hell) have been orbiting the same fertile creative circles in the Pacific Northwest. They’ve done stints as live/touring members for each other’s solo endeavors and they’ve contributed their distinctive voices to each other’s recordings. A.L.N. and M.S.W. even aligned their cathartic outlets for a now impossible to find Mizmor / Hell split, unleashed upon the world in 2014. A collaboration record like »Alluvion« feels as if it was always predestined.

The blueprint for »Alluvion« had been drafted long ago and it wallowed in obscurity, its memory swirling in the ether, patiently waiting for a rogue spark to manifest its existence. And, as luck would have it, when A.L.N. and M.S.W. once again found themselves in the midst of each other’s boundless creative universes, they were now prepared to undertake the monumental task.

Photo credits: Emma Ruth Rundle

A.L.N. and M.S.W. intend for the compositions on »Alluvion« to be used as a map to help navigate the listener through bouts of psychic distress, touching upon emotions both terribly familiar and wholly extrinsic. Pensive, tranquil movements combust into passages of absolutely soul-searing sludge. Suffocating, blackened doom bursts out of unknown crevasses; punctuated by the unsettling voices of beings doing their damnedest to claw their way out of canyons carved by mental anguish. It’s a harrowing journey, but one that seeks to provide a necessary catharsis. »Alluvion« is meant to act as a lens into the mind’s seemingly mystifying geography; a vessel for the self-exploration of the complex terrains of the human psyche.

Purchase »Alluvion« on CD / LP HERE.

Recorded by A.L.N. and M.S.W. at Abilith Studio during 2024.
Mixed by Sonny DiPerri at Octopus Beak during 2024.
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering during 2024.
Cover art by Kjetil Karlsen.
Promo photos by Emma Ruth Rundle.

Line-up:
A.L.N. – Guitars, Vocals, Drums
M.S.W. – Guitars, Vocals, Bass

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well