CLASS TRAITOR Broken Energy Highway (2023) Cassette

Australian sludge and post-metal has always had a particular weight to it, something in the landscape, maybe, or just decades of isolation turning inward. Class Traitor understand this better than most.

Melbourne's Class Traitor have been quietly building one of the more compelling catalogues in the local heavy underground, and Broken Energy Highway is the record that sharpens everything into focus. The album moves through post-metal's slow-burn architecture and sludge's deliberate, suffocating churn with the kind of patience that demands you meet it halfway. This is not background music. It's a record that occupies a room. The fact that it exists on cassette feels right, the format suits the analogue grit of the sound, the tape hiss an honest companion to the feedback. This is an ALT CVLT pressing, so you're supporting the local scene directly.

Cassette format. Full length album. Australian release, 2023. Fans of: Primitive Man, YOB, Pelican, Bell Witch, local Melbourne heavy.