Equilibrium

This one is a little weird, it's directly in between the two strongest albums in Crowbar's discography, but it feels weirdly weak given the material surrounding it. There are some certified bangers on the tracklist, I Feel the Burning Sun and Down Into the Rotting Earth are the heavy riff-fests that you'd come to expect from this band, but the consistency just isn't there as much? Past the halfway point the tracklist dips quite a bit in quality, not that there's ... read more

Sludge is a very hard genre to work with. Pair a Fletcher-Munson with how our ears differentiate frequencies less precisely at lower vibrations and you have, on paper, what ought to be a complete mess of incompossible low-end information. But nothing gets past Kirk Windstein. Gargantuan in both his literal size and artistic scope, the Big Kirk (before Charlie was biting his swag) bulldozed through all the "noughts" of music production dogma and defined Sludge as-it-would-be. Lots of ... read more