CROWBAR
Equilibrium (Spitfire)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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Some of you are familiar with Crowbar, and probably with the other bands in the scene it helped create, like Acid Bath and Corrosion of Conformity. For the rest of you, I'll do my best to sum it up... The instruments create dinner music for Dracula's feast and the singer sounds like a one-footed, pissed off bear looking for the bastard who set that trap. Thudthudthud, they go, sounding for all the world like Black Sabbath and Biohazard were allowed to breed unchecked, with thunderous drums and bass that seeps up from the murky depths below. They've been doing this for 10 years and the song remains the same, so if you like it, come and get it. If you're just a neck-craning bystander looking at the bodies on the highway, you'll looove what they've done to Gary Wright's 70s MOR classic, "Dreamweaver." Next album they may go after Neil Sadaka. Hey, somebody's got to.

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