Lifesblood for the Downtrodden

Artist: Crowbar
Label: Candlelight
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 803341168527
EAN: 0803341168527
ASIN: B0006UMRL4

Release Date: 2005-02-08

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Monster grooves
Monster riffs
Other bands that clearly have a lot of fun
Doom/sludge/stoner metal bands (that I own)
Brutal, but still textured
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The most downtuned guitars

Tracks:

New Dawn
Slave No More
Angels Wings
Coming Down
Fall Back to Zero
Underworld
Dead Sun
Holding Something
Moon
Violent Reaction
Lifesblood

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Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2007-02-08

If you're looking for Crowbar's classical Doom sound look somewhere else. I'm long time Crowbar fan and this album really let me down. It's a far cry from the sound that made them who they are. I gave it a 3 because it's a decent rock/metal album.

Great.......2006-07-31

I really feel Kirk got what he wanted out of this cd. This is one my personal favorites.

No worries.......2006-07-30

I didnt wait long til i received the order, so great service, and the product was flawless.......not to mention Crowbar stomps anyway! Hail all things heavy

Crowbar keep crushing.......2006-06-03

When thinking of the word "consistency," only two examples come to mind: vanilla pudding and Crowbar (or sludge/doom metal in general).

Ever since Crowbar formed and released their debut album in 1991, this southern quartet have always been in one niche: making slow, low-key, brooding, and ultra heavy sludge/doom metal. Despite several lineup changes (Pantera alumni Rex Brown played bass on this album), Kirk Windstein and his boys have never "sold out" or strayed far from their roots. Hence, the band's eighth studio album was no exception; "Lifesblood For The Downtrodden" serves up a new batch of pulverizing, bone crunching, mind numbing, speaker destroying, Southern flavored metal.

Granted, there are a couple of curveballs thrown into the mix here and there: "Fall Back To Zero" is a dreary, mostly melodic semi-ballad, and the album closer, "Lifesblood," is an acoustic strummed song with piano by former drummer Sid Montz. But every other one of the nine songs on here are absolutely bludgeoning. Some examples of this are the slowly churning, grinding, sledgehammer riffs on the album opener, "New Dawn," the faster-than-most fourth track, "Angels Wings," and the pounding skull cracker, "Coming Down."

Even if you're a metalhead, sludge/doom metal may or may not be your thing, so you'll definitely want to hear this album before buying it. But most metalheads will tell you "Lifesblood For The Downtrodden" is yet another tasty, satisfying treat from this Bayou-based band. And, quite frankly, Crowbar seem incapable of creating anything else.

Crowbar Does It Yet Again.......2006-04-28

I literally am stunned that as long as Kirk has been at this game he still has this kind of material in him. When does the well run dry? Probably every artist's worst question. Punishing riffs, heartfelt lyrics, and a whole new band. But he perseveres. And without sounding redundant (you know, yeh, yeh, that sounds like what you've already put out); as a long time Crowbar fan I take my hat off!! Of course he sits down and thinks to himself "I really don't want to put out exactly what I've done before." But what then . . . completely change and put out my best Aerosmith imitation like Mettallica did with Load (of . . .)? This is not death metal, it is not thrash (though it does kick up and make you want to stomp wild furry animals), it is mid tempo to slow crashing, chunky, sink your teeth into it pounding heavy metal. It is not melodic metal, nor techno metal. But it will kick your . . .

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