The Bison B.C. are a Canadian sludge band active since 2003, who have produced two excellent albums with a wide range of influences, from hardcore to doom, from thrash metal through southern rock and punk. But don't be intimidated by the variety of all these genres the band offers because it is all perfectly blended, managing to immediately captivate the listener with a truly powerful and well-calibrated wall of sound.
As in this debut mini album titled "Earthbound" from 2007, six mighty tracks with irregular rhythms, raw underground metal gems that hit the mark from the first listen.
The rhythms are always vigorous, never a drop in tone in these 30 minutes of insane and prickly sludge metal. The opening riff of the first track titled "Stockasaurus" is fantastic, with repeated counter-tempos, explosive solos, and slowdowns bordering on doom, making this song a real gem.
Then there's the great punk-hardcore mix offered by "Wartime", which in its generous four-minute duration, makes your head bang, thanks also to the clever use of the aforementioned doom-sludge slowdowns that add heaviness and sound volume to the composition of the four Canadian devils. With "The Curse", the fourth track of this mini, they seem to echo the best of Black Sabbath during the Ozzy era.
The entire album puts a bit of a kick in the listener's rear and showcases the band's great potential, which was marvelously expressed with the first full-length "Quiet Earth", which I also consider their best.
It's from this "Earthbound" that the story of the Bisons from Vancouver begins, a stellar start to their career that I recommend digging up to see where this excellent band started and began to make their first steps in the sludgy territories of more explosive sludge metal.
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