Point is, think of today like a bonus-extra for the Quarterly Review after last week. Sometimes we do an extra-bonus-extra too. That will not be happening here. I practice it in my own way, usually incorrectly. Next one is probably early July. Six years after The Serpent Only Lies review here , New Orleans sludge metal progenitors Crowbar deliver Zero and Below , a dutiful song and minute collection that emphasizes the strength of the current lineup of the band.
Treasure them while you can. Buy a shirt. Zero And Below by Crowbar. Crowbar on Facebook. MNRK Heavy website. Joined by a litany of musicians and friends he at one point or another called bandmates in Blackfinger and Trouble , as well as Victor Griffin of Pentagram , Place of Skulls , etc.
He still had that voice, he still knew who he was as a singer and a songwriter. He still loved The Beatles and Black Sabbath and he was still one of the best frontmen after to do the job for a doom band.
Eric Wagner on Bandcamp. Cruz Del Sur Music website. There are guitar, bass, drums and vocals, and those recordings began in vocals were done in , but also a string quartet recorded in Minneapolis, , a brass section and full choir recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria, , flute recorded in London, and harp recorded in Manchester, UK, What the Parma, NY-based outfit make of all this is an organic, neoclassical and folk-informed complexity worthy of headphones for its texture and encompassing in both its heaviest and its most sweeping sections.
The years of effort in making it were not wasted. But how on earth do you write a follow-up for a debut like this? Ode and Elegy on Instagram.
