This song is memorable, moving, and crushes like a ton of bricks. When the breakdown drops at 1:53, forget it. I mean, check out ultra-classic “All I Had (I Gave)”: it’s uncharacteristically speedy but sacrifices little of the massive Crowbar power, and when things get slower in the chorus, it’s huge. But this album is.Īnd while this band has had several stellar lineups, it’s hard to find any fault with this one, these four guys absolutely locked in to each other here, musically and, if I may, vibe-wise. And that’s what Crowbar do best, and while their debut album-1991’s Obedience Thru Suffering-was massive and impressive, it wasn’t quite the actualization of what Crowbar was capable of.
The opening riffs of lead cut and Crowbar classic “High Rate Extinction” set the mood right away here, the band managing to be outrageously heavy while also hitting all the feels. It’s not uncommon for a band to really develop their sound fully on their second record (buy me a beer and I can talk about this happening at length in the hair-metal scene), and that’s exactly what happened with Crowbar‘s self-titled record and Eyehategod‘s Take as Needed for Pain.īut which one is the ultimate early-NOLA sludge masterpiece? Find out in today’s misery-loving, feedback-drenched, swamp-dwelling sludge edition of Fight Fire With Fire. They’re both massive statements of intent that laid down the groundwork for what the groups would do over the ensuing decades. Both are from NOLA sludge legends, both are the bands’ second records, both are from 1993, both are when the band in question really came into their own. It wasn’t until I was pitching this to my editor that I really connected the dots between these two albums. Plus, we love these sorts of exercises, and also love watching you battle each other to the death in the comments, so how could this possibly end poorly? Yes, these albums are the best of the best.
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Fight Fire With Fire 1993, Crowbar, Editorial, Eyehategod, Fight Fire with Fire, NOLA, Sludge.įight Fire With Fire is an ongoing series on our site where we pit two classic genre albums against each other to definitively figure out which one is better.
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