Exclusive Album Premiere: Beggar’s Compelled to Repeat

How to best describe Compelled to Repeat, the debut album from London’s Beggar? It’s the parenticidal love child of Crowbar and Eyehategod. It’s a tank rolling over you, foot to head, one half-inch every hour in order to provide the slowest, most excruciating death possible. It’s a compound of tar and flesh-eating acid that somehow knows how to play music. It’s slow, it’s thick, it’s insidious, it’s malignant. It has seductive elements, like it’s deep groove and bluesy guitar solos, but those act only as a siren song for an anaconda that plans to wrap itself around you and squeeze you so tight you regurgitate your own organs. It’s agonizingly heavy and inarguably awesome.

It’s a record MetalSucks felt absolutely compelled to debut.

Says the band of the release:

“The album title, ‘Compelled to Repeat,’ refers to Freud’s ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle,’ in which he writes that the way that people process traumatic events or general bad shit is to repress it, but that it then surfaces periodically through a compulsion to repeat things in an involuntary means of working through that trauma. We also use this idea to refer to other compulsions to repeat that people experience in their daily lives (addiction, church, office work, Britain’s nostalgia for Empire, everyone’s daily commute…).”

Do yourself a favor a stream Compelled to Repeat below — you will not fucking regret it. The album, which was recorded with Wayne Adams (Green Lung, 11Paranoias, Terminal Cheesecake) and mastered by James Plotkin (Sunn O))), ISIS, Pelican), comes out April 3 on APF Records. Pre-order it here.