Title: doomcore at its best
Review: Crowbar have come quite a long way since their early days of "sludge". Kirk Windstein, only original band member and mastermind of Crowbar, says about this CD that you woulnd't have expected it from a band whose early albums were not very sophisticated. The fact is that the songs still have a certain riff-oriented simplicity (also, they have lost none of their heaviness). Yet the songs are very smartly arranged, which, combined with a surprising amount of melody on this album, makes them little doom-masterpieces. If you look for keyboards and production, wrong address. If you look for the exactly right mix of doomcore and melody, slow heaviness and the occasional explosion, this is dead right. Kirk's singing is also good on this record. Don't forget to check out the two DOWN albums, on which Kirk also plays.
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