Within six months of forming back in 2013, TarLung had recorded their debut release, seven tracks of fuzzy self-confessed Eyehategod and Church of Misery worship. Yet it took until late last year before the next instalment of tectonic shamanism and their Void EP, emerged. Now, after the release of their full-length Beyond the Black Pyramid , with a sound so fat it is in danger of not being able to squeeze through your speakers, I threw some questions at Marian , Rotten and Five about what they had been up to in the interim. Marian [drums]: [The debut] was received very positively, so we just continued with writing stuff, playing shows, and testing the new material in the live setting. It happened quite organically that the tunes got longer, darker and more refined, while of course maintaining the love for the gritty, fuzzy and noisy approach. So we found ourselves with an extensive bunch of material a year or so after the first release and thought “an in between EP might ...
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