SLUG MASS made a name for themselves on the Malmö-scene with their debut single, Planck Mass - a 19-minute doom-jazz-noise-monolith. Those who swallowed Planck Mass whole were disappointed that the rest of debut album property did not continue in the same bone-crushing manner. Those who had been horrified by the fact that Planck Mass "cannot even be called music, it is more like a tortourous pulsating traffic accident in continous slow motion" were happily surprised by the album's, otherwise, light and groovy touch.
In September the follow-up album observer was released. It was preceded by the single Tar Propulsion, an inexorably warped motoric-space odyssey with inimitable weightless flugelhorn-playing by Ellen Pettersson.
Live SLUG MASS moves between long, searching doom dirges, sudden outbursts of hard riffing with wild soprano sax solos on top and stationary reflections with abstract jazz-cascades. The band is also featured on Malmö 2025, a collage of an experimental Malmö-scene released by För Vidare Lyssning.