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Rating: Crowbar is the name of a band composed of typical overweight Americans, who play sludge-metal that's truly tough, badass, and extremely heavy.
Their founder Kirk Windstein, whose appearance is close to that of a pig, gave birth to the band called Crowbar at the end of the '80s, which in Italian translates to... crowbar! The line-up is made of true heavyweights: besides Kirk (vocals and guitar), we find that enormous Christ named Todd Strange (bass) and Matt Thomas (guitar). The only one with decent cholesterol seems to be the drummer Craig Nunenmacher.
The CD in question is the second album developed by the band after "Obedience Through Suffering" and produced by their friend Phil Anselmo, who later took them on tour with Pantera. The cover, which depicts a bleeding and suffering Christ, provides plenty of space for the idea of torment and pain that takes shape in the work. The sound of "Crowbar" is damn slow, exasperating, disarming, and pissed off. Kirk's voice sounds like that of a fucking furious and restless ogre ready to tear apart and kill any living form, terrestrial and not. The lyrics are nihilistic, depressed, full of frustration... incapable of finding light at the end of a cold and dark path. The quartet gives the sensation of being like a German Panzer: heavy, evil, belligerent, and decidedly effective. Their music indeed hits the mark and leaves you no escape, suffocates you, and makes you suffer until it destroys you.
Singles like "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence Is Punishment", along with the poignant "No Quarter", are the emblem of the tough Crowbar sound. They are not easy to digest, but they know it well and they widely demonstrate that they know it.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 High Rate Extinction (02:43)
Reign over you another day
Take all I can
Slave to me there's no other way
Break all I can
Come and taste me
Stay and praise me
Take all I can while I burn you down
Weak man
Weak mind
You know you never will be free
Come for you time after time and again
Crawl with me
Give me what I need from you
Don't question why
On your knees in front of me
Weak man
Weak mind
02 All I Had (I Gave) (03:10)
How long have I given all I've got?
Here I stand
My days and nights now are solitude
I struggle on
I've paid my price
All I had I gave
So much still lingers inside my head
I've lost it all
No trace of tolerance I can find
An empty heart
I've paid my price
All I had I gave
Save all that you feel for me
05 No Quarter (04:29)
Close the door, put out the light
You know they won't be home tonight
The snow falls hard and don't you know
The winds of Thor are blowing cold
They're wearing steel that's bright and true
They carry news that must get through
They choose the path where noone goes
They ask no quarter
They want no quarter
They need no quarter
Walking side by side with death
The devil mocks their every step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The dogs of doom are howling more
They carry news that must get through
To build a dream for me and you
They choose the path where no one goes
They ask no quarter
They want no quarter
They need no quarter
06 Self-Inflicted (02:44)
I'll never lose the scars you gave
No longer can I live in peace
I'll carry anguish to the grave
Frustration that I can't release
Self-Inflicted
Self-Inflicted
To see you smile it cuts me deep
Knowing that you're no longer here
I see you dying as I sleep
Wish I could leave it all:
Self-Inflicted
Self-Inflicted
All my pain is
All this pain is
Self-Inflicted
Self-Inflicted
08 Existence Is Punishment (04:28)
I gave my heart and soul to you my friend
You let me fall
If you could only see what's in my heart
You'd take my hand
I've lived this life as a man would do
Why's it so hard to find the truth?
My faith is strong within myself
I bleed of pride
Inside
I won't forgive
You can't take it back now
It's to hard to swallow
No words
No conviction
I've found the truth inside myself
But I am still doing time
Opened my eyes to what is real
This world is hard
It's cold
It's agony
09 Holding Nothing (03:12)
Holding nothing
Scratch the walls just to survive
You can't fathom what that's like
You can listen to you lies
In the end you'll do your time
Holding nothing
Staring at myself again
What I see would swallow you
In your eyes I'll always be nothing
Never did you understand
Never did you give respect
Never did you ever love
Never
Never
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