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Slope
Biography
Alright, alright, alright. This is a pretty bold move. What the f*** has gotten into those five weirdos from – of all places! – Duisburg? Are they even allowed to do what they are actually doing? Well: Slope are doing what they do for roundabout a decade by now. It all started with a 7”-EP named Helix. Five songs that were sniffing around in early 90s hardcore territory. Think: thick grooves, a slight hip-hop-edge – all packed into a tight and catchy sound.
But, you know, Slope is a band that is eager to evolve and take their time for that. So, it takes ’em three years to complete another EP. Losin’ Grip presents itself as a 12” with six songs. Everything that made their debut so convincing is still there – but so much more. There’s a surprisingly funky fire burning, and it all grooves like hell with the vague notion of this being a forgotten relic from way back when.
As said: Slope take their time most of the time. That’s why four more years (and a pandemic) pass by until they finally release their debut album Street Heat in 2021. It maintains the strengths of their preceding EPs. But it’s longer, funkier, weirder, like a bag of loose nuts. It’s a sound that nobody dared to play since nu metal killed it in the mid-90s. In the US people called it rap-rock or funk metal – in good old Germany we named it: crossover.
And – man! – they are crossing the hell over. Slope were a fully-fledged and gifted bunch from the start. But by now they are world championship contenders in their own universe. Said universe must be defined by a bit of namedropping as Slope’s roots are reaching deep into a sound that mainly came up by the late 80s/early 90s, a time when bands wanted to do something fresh and wicked, and just mix shit up a little.