August 'Best Of' suggests that the Podcast is taking an ever increasing shift into more extreme metal territory considering the sparse number of hard /classical rock bands that are featuring during the last few months. Having said that, sludge bands are having to expand their sound to get a look in after years of listening to this type of music and becoming somewhat numb to the monotony of a lot of this genre. This has been demonstrated by The Master Of Suspense by Sithter becoming my Sludge album of August due to the fact that, although there is definitely an element of Eyehategod worship going on here, there is sufficient punk/crust overtones married with a raw guitar sound to make this album stand out. I guess similar could be said about the other bands that made the list, Stone Nomads for example could easily have been my Doom album of the month, such is the constant shifting between doom and stoner influences within their Fields Of Doom album, however I had to go for the enormity of the droning sounds of Morbid Evils to fill that particular slot. All of these band's Bandcamp links are on the blog ~ https://www.deathrattlepodcast.com/2022/09/deathrattle-podcast-dirty-dozen-august.htmlMy 'Dirty Dozen' for August includes albums by ~Stone NomadsMorbid EvilsOmen StonesSithterEarly MoodsNightbearerOld TombHellgravEruptionConsumptionSwarnAutonoesis