How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Outstanding
Value for Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Probably Crowbar's best effort to date
Disadvantages:
None really, unless you don't like downtuned heavy ass riffs
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
Crowbar's newest album, and its awesome.
Background: Crowbar are a sludge / "doom-core" band based in New Orleans. Formed in 1989 and influenced by bands such as Melvin and Carnivore, crowbar pretty much define what many people think of as heavy. Unfortunately, Crowbar tend to be overlooked as one of the metal greats, but after listening to any of Kirk's riffs and you'll realise that they are the kings of old school heavy - slow, grinding and with that style that grabs your neck and yanks it about. if you haven't heard of them before, id say they are like a down tuned Pantera....
The album starts with a heavy, slow track entitled "New Dawn". Wow, is all i can say. Its great to listen to and even more fun to play.
The album continues in this trend for the first few tracks ("angel's wings", "coming down" etc) and generally sets the tone for the album - slow, sombre and heavy. However, tracks such as "fall back to zero" and "moon" show the lighter sides to Crowbar's style, and are not simple mindless riffs based on power chords, as is the trend with a lot of metal bands these days.
I really enjoy this album, and find it easy to listen to - not in the way of ambient music, which i tend to zone out to, but just that you can listen to it with attention easily - its not mindless repetitive fuzz, but music played ...heavier.
I'd say that if you want to listen to Crowbar, this is a good place to start as the memorable tracks give something to latch on to, and im pretty sure everyone into metal will find something they like. Well, perhaps not power metallers...
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Outstanding
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Outstanding
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