Both sets of songs share a common throughline

‘Encrust’ and the chemically overripe lushness of ‘Erosion’

With a seemingly endless dungeon full of heavy metal influences channelled through Darkthrone’s dynamic riff-machine

Following up on Jongen’s 2018 debut under the Ghost Bag moniker

THE WORLD IS A VAMPIRE - Trenchsewer b/w Heartshorn LP Fanzines Both sets of songs shareNew Orleans' The World is a Vampire delivers a serving of unsettled noisy goth punk. Add doses of 90's grunge and goth influence but create something truly nightmarish with it as they layer on bouts of vicious hardcore and moments of complete dementia. The sound is blown up as if played through mud, with huge distortion and the maniacal, shrieking, spectral howls of Bryan from Thou. This is a masterful melding of genres feat. KC from Thou Treadles,