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Title: Sludge: History of Crowbar
Artist: Crowbar
Label: Spitfire Records
Release Date: 10/3/00

Rating: 2 Skulls
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    • Submitted by Redwolff (11/30/00):
    Sludge is a very apropos title for this retrospective. When I think of "sludge", I think of something akin to molasses: dark in color, viscous, attempting to wade through it is an arduous task. This pretty much describes how I felt while listening to this album. The first song, "All I Had I Gave," which Death mentioned in his review of Equilibrium, is a decent song... but then pretty much every other song on the album sounds just like "All I Had I Gave," except slower. The only time the album diverges from its funeral procession of sound is in a cover of "Dream Weaver," which I just can't believe they did. Perhaps, like Anthrax playing "September Morn" on the Tonight Show years ago, it was a joke.

    Listening to Sludge
    Sits on head like sleeping cat
    All songs sound the same
    2 out of 5

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