Old Mayor Shelter Ceremony Collapse (full ep, 2023)

Today I deliver another Saturday Assembly feature to you from the nonblack worlds of Metal, and this one is a special one to me. Shelter Ceremony Collapse is an exhumed EP, recorded 15 years ago by the thenBrighton based band Old Mayor the duo of poet Adam Kammerling and Owen Gildersleeve (Modern Technology, Human Worth) who produce an unholy bestial form of hypnotic sludgy, tarthick doom, with a chilling howling vocal. I put on this bands first ever live show in support of their demo release when I was running a live band club night in a basement bar in Brighton, and it remains one of my favourite gigs I ever put on, and the start of some great friendships. Now the band are back, playing live in Brighton again this weekend after a decade away, at an alldayer marking the end of longrunning Brighton promotor Tatty Seaside Town. The end of an era (just check out their flyer archive IG account for a glimpse of how I spent my formative years: