Northern German heavyweights Love•Love•Love and Ølgod have joined forces for LØVEGOD, an eight-track split album out now through Electric Valley Records.

Built from a longstanding friendship between the two bands, LØVEGOD gives each group one side to push its own version of heaviness. Love•Love•Love contribute four tracks of abrasive post-hardcore, noise rock and sludge, while Ølgod answer with four songs rooted in doom, sludge and grunge.

Formed in Lübeck in 2023, Love•Love•Love introduced themselves with the 2024 tape First Love. Their half of LØVEGOD continues that record’s confrontational approach, combining dissonant guitars and sudden tempo changes with a socially critical, anti-fascist perspective.

The quartet still leaves room for atmosphere within the chaos. “2246,” for example, incorporates synths while moving between more delicate passages and the band’s heavier attack.

Kiel trio Ølgod take over the second half with nearly 21 minutes of material, marking their first release of new songs since their 2022 debut tape. Guitarist Hannes, drummer Jan and vocalist Fynn lean into massive riffs while stretching their established sludge and doom foundation in several directions.

Opener “Leeches” pairs Fynn’s harsh vocals with melodic guest vocals from Jan Moritz Plewka, setting up the contrasts that run throughout Ølgod’s side. Faster sludge passages give way to dissonant riffs, slow doom and flashes of black metal across “Leeches,” “Paradise,” “Argens” and “Drainspawn.”

Rather than smoothing over the differences between its two halves, LØVEGOD makes those contrasts the point. Love•Love•Love bring nervous, unpredictable aggression while Ølgod favor weight and low-slung riffs, leaving the split connected by a shared appetite for volume rather than a single sound.