Bohren & Der Club of Gore have been playing their hypnotic ambient jazz for over twenty years; somethingthat the band themselves describe as an “unholy ambient mixture of slow jazz ballads, Black Sabbath doom and down tuned Autopsy sounds”. Despite these nods to metal, their sound is not one that brings their home (Germany’s industrial heartland, the Ruhr) to mind. Indeed, the band originally bonded over a mutual love of hardcore acts such as Chronical Diarrhoea. However, Bohren & Der Club of Gore understand and appreciate the value of silence in their music; fleshing out their meditative work-outs (built initially round sonorous bass lines and sketchy percussive passages) with saxophone, piano, vibraphone and various electronics.