While hunting for new metal bands I'd never heard before I stumbled upon this gem of a release on German label Wonder. Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore. Black Earth. That's got to be uber heavy, innit? Just what I'm looking for I thought. Add to the band name and album title cover art consisting of a black skull on a black background and song titles such as Destroying Angels; Skeletal Remains and The Art Of Coffins surely this band play some of the most brutal doom/death metal I've heard? How wrong can a person be? Bohren play slow, soothing, sexy-smooth lounge jazz music. The kind you'd expect to hear from Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks, Lost Highway). In fact the album does sit very closely to the music found in David Lynch's TV masterpiece Twin Peaks but it doesn't conjure up images of Agent Cooper eating pie in the local diner, or Audrey Horne flirtatiously slinking her way around a log cabin. Bohren's music is more likely to arouse images of corpses crawling from their graves in search of flesh. Dragging themselves along the floor of a long forgotten woodland, their faces badly decomposed and their legs missing. Brooding double bass and the most minimalist drumming form the decaying backbone of each song while piano, Rhodes piano and tenor saxophone provide the rotting flesh that fills out each putrid instrumental carcass. As much as it is dark and creepy, it still remains soothing enough to fall asleep to and strangely beautiful. Bohren seem to have succeeded in creating a new genre in jazz music. Horror jazz. Or is it Death Jazz? However you wish to describe it, it's probably not like anything you already own and with summer approaching fast, I recommend you grab yourself a copy and keep you summer nights dark.