“A hope, a prayer, and a plane ticket and a couple of riffs! For fear of letting down my buddy who spent all this money we had to come up with something…”
The “buddy” in question is a former Danzig merch guy and the reason you have a veritable supergroup of Metal/Sludge/Doom talent featuring members of Crowbar, Down, Type O Negative, and Silvertomb according to EYE AM vocalist/guitarist Kenny Hickey recently via phone:
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The only complaint we have about the debut single from supergroup EYE AM is this: Why did no one in either party think to do this before??? Featuring Type O Negative’s guitarist/vocalist Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly with Crowbar’s vocalist/guitarist Kirk Windstein and former Crowbar and Down bassist Todd Strange, EYE AM is ready to set the music world ablaze with their inspired modern Doom that also takes turns visiting a time when the term “Heavy Metal” was on the rise and “Shock Rock” had yet to be defined for a Black Sabbath meets Iron Butterfly meets Alice Cooper hybrid that surprisingly sounds nothing like anything the sum of EYE AM’s parts are known for.
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In the year of our lord 2022, and over 30 years into their career as Sludge Metal GODS, there’s absolutely no denying what a new Crowbar record is going to sound like. It’s that same kind of comfort fans get when they press “Play” on any AC/DC masterpiece and with their latest, Zero And Below, the New Orleans outfit have managed to craft a quintessential Crowbar record that stays true to their roots while adding a slew of vibrantly vicious new sonic cuts to their already impressive arsenal of legendary tracks.
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I don’t why I thought it’d be a good idea to do both an end of the year list and preview list reflecting the year they’re happening in….but here we are. Our list of twenty one albums and change has already posted (Which you can read here) so now it’s time to close the book on 2021 and look to the future with 22 albums we think will make this year sound even better than the last…and change.
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Crowbar has a new album coming out this year! Down will be celebrating 25 years since their seminal debut was released! AND we get Kirk Windstein’s first ever solo outing to boot? How are we all so lucky? And most importantly, how is Kirk Windstein so goddamn amazing to bestow this much Sludge awesomeness upon us in 2020? Those questions and more will (most likely) be answered if you read on…or, at the very least, you’ll get a pretty decent review of Dream In Motion which is out on January 24th.
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Crowbar will always hold a special place in my heart. While Pantera is technically the first live “show” I ever attended it was Crowbar, who opened, who will always be the first band I ever saw live. [Read more…]