Review: Sea Bastard – Cyclopean

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 30th October 2026 Sorry folks, but when I see a band with a name like Sea Bastard, I dive straight in. Them’s the rules. It was merely fortuitous that I came upon ‘Cyclopean’, the third record from Brighton’s Sea Bastard and their first in thirteen years. Slipped into an extended hiatus while the members focussed on other projects, Sea Bastard were reunited in 2021 to honour the wish of a friend with a terminal illness, and five years on we finally have the follow up to 2013’s ‘Scabrous’. Four tracks, seventy five minutes of monolithic, crushing sludge doom sounds like quite the undertaking but luckily I have nothing but time for albums like this. ‘Cyclopean’ is out now through Road to Masochist Records. A vast, rumbling riff kicks the opening twenty two minutes of ‘Dark Altar’ into gear, a steam-rolling sludgy doom monstrosity that slowly unfold itself out of its cavernous resting place. Like a great beast, roused from its eternal slumber in the…

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