Micro: Slabdragger, Regress
Slabdragger is a great band name, one;
Two, any band that describes themselves as “blues/ jam band/ metal” is worth at least checking out;
Three, their lyrical themes are classified as “epic journeys, weed, sea monsters…”;
Lastly, all this positive foreshadowing actually pays off: this is cool shit. Doomy, screamed sludge metal. “Bab el-Mandeb” is a great sludge tune, “Erroneous Maximus” rocks a vaguely-funky California stoner riff, “Trichome Oddyssey” is a wildly-heavy Pink Floyd, and “Iron Vulture” is the lost Sabbath tune they wish they wrote.
As near as I can ascertain, they’re a three-piece from London. Hopefully they’ll explode over the next few years. They should.
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This entry was posted on February 2, 2012 by hhbrady. It was filed under Album Reviews and was tagged with album review, Doom, Metal, Pink Floyd, regress, rock, Slabdragger, Sludge Metal, stoner.
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