"Down-tuned, filthy, and extremely awesome are just some of the words I would use to describe CRUD’s new album, Human Decency. This band has come back with what might be one of the sickest SLUDGE//DOOM releases of 2026. Over the course of 8 blistering ugly AF tracks, this band shows the world they can’t be fucked with. I love the seething, disgusting, putrid audio that is crawling around in all of their anthems.
Vocally, this band can truly do no wrong! On the musical side of things, this crew lays down the kind of hateful soundwaves that, in my book, have the power to suffocate all of our oppressors. CRUD is hitting the road starting this week, and if y’all are on the East Coast, peep all of the info below. I can smell the pungent resin emanating from every song on track on this album. What the world needs right now is Human Decency, which is why we are beyond stoked to be streaming this modern-day SLUDGE//DOOM classic in full south of heaven!"
cvltnation.com
"Born in Miami in 2015 as a stripped-down two-piece featuring Julie Mejia on bass and Mariel Zayas-Bazan on drums, Crud gradually mutated into their current form with guitarist Kris Garcia and vocalist Andy S. Their early material leaned primitive and confrontational, but Human Decency finds the band working with a broader sense of movement: still low, still mean, still very much allergic to polish, but more dynamic in the way it shifts between crawl, rupture and collapse.
The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Nuñez of Torche/Shitstorm at Sound Artillery Studio, with the band emphasizing immediacy over polish and tracking the core of the record in two days. Crud will also join Dopethrone and Fister for a short Southeast run in September, where audiences can experience these new songs at an appropriately unsafe volume."
Tim Mudd - DECIBEL
