When I booked Batillus with Ocean and Salome in early 2009 they were a fun, patient, working-man's instrumental doom trio. The later addition of dreadlocked ex-Inswarm vocalist (and Jarboe collaborator) Fade Kainer on voice/synth/noise added an industrialized intensity and overall bleakness. If you haven't caught them since Kainer joined, you'll be surprised by the variety of darkened doom on their ...