Tuskar have been shifting with the strange, tectonic heft of some unknowable Eldritch Abomination beneath the surface of the British metal underground for a few years now. Where 2017’s unhinged debut EP Arianhood and 2018’s audacious three-track follow-up The Tide, Beneath, The Wall felt like the sounds of an elemental force establishing its artistic foothold, though, the seven songs of Matriarch see them find their final form. Creeping into view across the funereal 12-minute sprawl of the title-track, the self-anointed “nuclear sludge” of their beginnings is still there, channelling a leaden, fuzzed-up brand of doom indebted to heroes like Sleep and contemporaries such as Conan and Slabdragger. As the album opens up with the concussive, rapid-fire weirdness of To The Sky, ...