On their previous album, The Orion Chronicles, Negative Reaction crafted a slab of monolithic doom topped only by Sleep's Jerusalem. It would be a difficult feat to follow up such a landmark release for any band. However, Negative Reaction have stepped up to the challenge with ease on their third outing, Everything You Need for Galactic Battle Adventures. In the process, Negative Reaction have become the undisputed kings of sludge doom.

With Everything You Need for Galactic Battle Adventures, Negative Reaction have kept the doom elements of their sound just as crushing as on The Orion Chronicles CD. At the same time, this is the clearest or most obvious the band's hardcore and sludge influences have been since their first album, endofyorerror. It's a well-balanced attack that is sure to please fans of all those disciplines.

Needless to say, if you thought Bongzilla's recent album Gateway was superior sludge doom, Everything You Need for Galactic Battle Adventures will kill you, as it obliterates Gateway (strong praise, since that album is a killer, too). The Orion Chronicles may have been a historic doom recording but this album has truly cemented Negative Reaction's spot in the pantheon of it all. Yet another great album from the band who must now be considered the best sludge doom outfit in the world. - Dan Rowe/Uncle Dan's House Of Smut

More doom goodness from psycheDOOMelic records, this time it's Negative Reaction with their hardcore rooted mathy doom sound.

The vocals set the overall mood from the get go with Ken Bones (guitarist, vocalist) screaming his living brains out with hardcore tinged madness. When these guys aren't pummeling you with their intense riffs, it's the vocals up front. Musically the guitar work reminds me of everyone from Iommi, to Eyehategod, COC down the line. It's punk and classic rock influenced I like I believe.

Great rhythm section and the drummer is outstanding in having a fine line between flash and solid. The overall musicianship on this CD is exceptional and must be witnessed by the angry doom fan.

If you dig Bongzilla, Grief, Man is the Bastard, Early Neurosis, I am betting you will like this. It's tuned down hardcore doom and not for the timid. I must also add (again) that this is the third album I have heard from psycheDOOMelic lately, and it's all top notch...a good consistant roster so far. If you like these cats, you will also more than likey dig what else psycheDOOMelic has to offer in other words...ROCK METAL DOOM! - stonerrock.com

Everything You Need For Galactic Battle Adventures
Giant-sounding stoner-rock with a vocalist who sounds like he's being squeezed in some pretty painful places, although not as bad as that description implies, in other words, he's higher up on the tonal scale but still rages and shouts with the best of them, fitting the music like a glove. Then the music itself - wickedly slow slices of stoner doom, that suddenly erupt into life with a hail of guitars reigning down, before settling back into the monstrous-sounding, guitars-heavy, monumentally slow rhythm mayhem of its truly sludge-laden, doomy approach. Fantastic stuff.
- CD Services, Scotland