Obedience thru suffering

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Obedience thru suffering
Studio album by Crowbar

Publication
(s)

1991

Label (s) Grind Core, Pavement Music

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Doom metal , sludge

Title (number)

10

running time

43:15

occupation
  • Guitar: Kevin Noonan
  • Drums: Craig Nunenmacher

production

Mark Namara, Lenny Moore, Crowbar

Studio (s)

Studio 53, Palatine, Illinois

chronology
- Obedience thru suffering Crowbar
(1993)

Obedience thru Suffering ( English for "Obedience through Suffering") is the debut album by the US doom metal and sludge band Crowbar . It was released in 1991 on the Grind Core International label , but was later re-released by Pavement Music .

style

The album is assigned to the sludge. Bradley Torreano sees influences in the robotic approach of Helmet , the razor-sharp riffs of Exhorder and the brutally slow rhythm of the Melvins . The entire album is offered without a solo. The sound, later called sludge, is slow and clumsy, the singing is mostly melodic, mostly short lines of text are sung. Thrash influences were also seen in the singing . According to Frank Albrecht, the music and vocals are "more like a Thrash version of Doom, ie you hear loud, energetic guitars combined with rough-Thrashy vocals and extremely original riffs." (Frank Albrecht) The Thrash influences were particularly felt on those also from New Orleans Exhorder returned. Crowbar himself rather refers to the usual mix of Doom Metal and Hardcore Punk in Sludge .

Emergence

After the band recorded their first and only demo in April 1990 and replaced their original drummer with Craig Nunenmacher, the band went into the studio in Palatine, Illinois in October 1991 to record their debut. Three songs from the demo were re-recorded: A Breed Apart , My Agony and Subversion . A video was made for the latter piece that showed Headbanger's ball from time to time.

reception

Rock-hard editor Frank Albrecht called the style "Power Doom". He particularly liked the production and Kirk Windstein's powerful vocals. Bradley Torreano from Allmusic criticized the bass for being too loud and robbing the guitars of their punch. The follow -up albums are more impressive, but Obedience Thru Suffering is one of the first releases of the “Louisiana sound” of metal.

Track list

  1. Waiting in silence
  2. I despise
  3. A Breed Apart
  4. Obedience Thru Suffering
  5. Vacuum
  6. Four walls
  7. subversion
  8. Feeding Fear
  9. My agony
  10. The Innocent

Artwork

The original version of the cover by Mitch Nawara showed a reproduction of a fresco with a representation of a muscular man carrying a large ball , reminiscent of Sisyphus or Heracles . The album was later re-released with a different title illustration showing a head rooted in the ground with flames leaping from its eyes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Schiffmann: Crowbar: Obedience Thru Suffering (Re-Release) (Review). Musikreview.de, accessed on June 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Bradley Torreano: Crowbar: Obedience Thru Suffering. allmusic.com, accessed June 18, 2015 : “Equally influenced by the robotic approach of Helmet, the razor sharp riffing of Exhorder, and the brutally slow pacing of Melvins, Obedience Thru Suffering shows a band who is not afraid to stand out with a bizarre mix of influences. "
  3. ↑ a b c Frank Albrecht: Doom Core! , in: Rock Hard, No. 64, September 1992, p. 28.
  4. ^ A b Frank Albrecht: Obedience Thru Suffering. www.rockhard.de, accessed on June 18, 2015 .