FIRE TO FIELDS is a wild sludge-metal outfit from the city of Novosibirsk in the south-western region of Siberia. It was formed in 2007, and two years later produced a demo with two songs. The four young mates - Stas (voice), Oleg (drums), Dmitry (bass), and Vladimir (guitar) - were not the first Russian band who aimed to combine sociopathic aggression of punkcore with soundness and particularity of doom-metal, but their approach was surprisingly fresh and distinctive. Despite their young age and remoteness from big musical centers, FTF gained a very solid reputation in Russian heavy-underground community and managed to build up a small but devoted army of followers. FIRE TO FIELDS' full-length debut album, Products captures the bands compelling ugliness in its most raw state. It features 4 new tracks ranging from seven to twelve minutes, plus 2 re-mastered versions of the bands very first recordings (one of which is a cover version of "Depress" by Eyehategod). Crushing down-tempo beats and coarse crusty guitar riffs spilling out high-pitched noisy feedback is a perfectly fitting match for frontmans eternally tortured screams. All songs move at a slow-motion pace showing obvious swampy doom metal influences all over the place. Products is not an overtly catchy album, but theres something brewing that looks like it might eventually turn into a real challenge (6 tracks - 56 min.).