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“woah… he said he gave his heart and soul to some chick”
“thats must’ve been at least like 50 pounds of meat”
Crowbar might be becoming one of my favorite bands in the genre of sludge metal, just two albums into their career they were already putting out some premier stuff. The guitar tone on here is absolutely nasty and the riffs in every song are excellent. This was also apparently produced by Phil Anselmo, and that does show quite a bit, this does have a bit of that groovy, Pantera-ish edge. If I had any complaints, I'd say the vocals are a tad bit weaker than they are on some of the ... read more
A significant improvement from the debut, it gets way closer to a signature sound that isn't just "hardcore but slow", it's got those giant-sounding, atmospheric riffs and lots of vocal variety that will dominate the rest of their career. It still gets a little bit boring near the end of it, but it's a short album so it's not an unforgivable sin.
listened to on may 29
i mean its crowbar, these guys are like one of the founding fathers of sludge
but yeah really good stuff
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Track List
| 1 | High Rate Extinction 2:42 | 85 |
| 2 | All I Had (I Gave) 3:10 | 89 |
| 3 | Will That Never Dies 3:55 | 86 |
| 4 | Fixation 3:44 | 84 |
| 5 | No Quarter 4:29 | 87 |
| 6 | Self-Inflicted 2:44 | 83 |
| 7 | Negative Pollution 3:10 | 78 |
| 8 | Existence Is Punishment 4:27 | 91 |
| 9 | Holding Nothing 3:11 | 79 |
| 10 | I Have Failed 4:23 | 85 |
Total Length: 35 minutes
