Yes, that's right, I'm going to put them in everybody's favorite amorphous blob of a genre. Sure, it's easy to hear the sludge metal, listening to the slower grinding phrases on songs like "Black the Sun" or "Bay of Pigs." And the metalcore is there too, and is in fact what you really hear first as the intro track "Heart of the Wound" comes pounding out of the gates. But it's really the sorts of things you might attribute to post-hardcore, the off-beat dissonant breakdowns or long noodly passages like "Collective Unconscious" where the band actually shines and offers up something interesting to listen to. Unfortunately, the CD is heavily weighted toward alternating sludgy and recycled hardcore/metalcore riffs and incoherent yelling.