"Zero and Below" by Crowbar delivers a punishing blend of sludge metal characterized by its thick, downtuned guitar riffs and a raw, gritty production style. The album's instrumentation features heavy, distorted guitars layered with a relentless rhythm section, creating a dense sonic landscape. Tracks like "Chemical Godz" and "Bleeding From Every Hole" showcase a mix of slow, crushing tempos and occasional bursts of faster energy, maintaining a palpable intensity throughout. The textures are gritty and abrasive, with a palpable sense of heaviness that permeates each track. Lyrically dark and thematically heavy, the album's distinctiveness lies in its ability to balance melodic elements with the sheer weight of its sound, making for an immersive listening experience.

Album: Zero and Below by Crowbar (2022)
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: 2020s, Album, eOne


Album: Sever the Wicked Hand by Crowbar (2011)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Description: Sever the Wicked Hand is the ninth studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar. It was released on February 8, 2011 via E1 Music, on February 14, 2011 via Century Media in the UK, and a day later for the rest of Europe. It was the band's first studio album after Lifesblood for the Downtrodden, released exactly six years before in 2005.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 2010s, Album, eOne

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Sever the Wicked Hand is the ninth studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar. It was released on February 8, 2011 via E1 Music, on February 14, 2011 via Century Media in the UK, and a day later for the rest of Europe. It was the band's first studio album after Lifesblood for the Downtrodden, released exactly six years before in 2005.

Album: Odd Fellows Rest by Crowbar (1998)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Description: Odd Fellows Rest is the fifth album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on July 7, 1998 via Mayhem Records. It was re-released on August 24, 1999 via Spitfire Records, featuring a bonus track.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 1990s, Album, eOne

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Odd Fellows Rest is the fifth album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on July 7, 1998 via Mayhem Records. It was re-released on August 24, 1999 via Spitfire Records, featuring a bonus track.

Album: Obedience Thru Suffering by Crowbar (1991)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Description: Obedience thru Suffering is the first full length studio album by the American sludge metal band Crowbar, released September 26, 1991 on the Grind Core Int. label.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 1990s, Album, eOne

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Obedience thru Suffering is the first full length studio album by the American sludge metal band Crowbar, released September 26, 1991 on the Grind Core Int. label.

Album: Crowbar by Crowbar (1993)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Description: Crowbar is the second studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on October 12, 1993 through Pavement Music.
 It sold 100,000 copies on the now defunct independent label Pavement Music. The singles "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence Is Punishment" were played on MTV and received international attention. Crowbar was recorded in New Orleans in 1992 and produced by Phil Anselmo, a childhood friend of Crowbar's founder Kirk Windstein and former singer of Pantera.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 1990s, Album, eOne

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Crowbar is the second studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on October 12, 1993 through Pavement Music.
 It sold 100,000 copies on the now defunct independent label Pavement Music. The singles "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence Is Punishment" were played on MTV and received international attention. Crowbar was recorded in New Orleans in 1992 and produced by Phil Anselmo, a childhood friend of Crowbar's founder Kirk Windstein and former singer of Pantera.

Album: Lifesblood for the Downtrodden by Crowbar (2005)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: Candlelight Records
Format: Album

Description: Lifesblood for the Downtrodden is the eighth studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on February 8, 2005, through Candlelight Records. Its working title in 2004 had been You Don't Need an Enemy to Have a War. It is dedicated to the memory of Dimebag Darrell, who died after the band had recorded the album. "Coming Down" appeared on Fear Candy 13, a compilation CD issued by the British extreme metal magazine Terrorizer.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 2000s, Album, Candlelight Records


Lifesblood for the Downtrodden is the eighth studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on February 8, 2005, through Candlelight Records. Its working title in 2004 had been You Don't Need an Enemy to Have a War. It is dedicated to the memory of Dimebag Darrell, who died after the band had recorded the album. "Coming Down" appeared on Fear Candy 13, a compilation CD issued by the British extreme metal magazine Terrorizer.

Album: Time Heals Nothing by Crowbar (1995)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Description: Time Heals Nothing is the third studio album by the band Crowbar, released in 1995 through Pavement Music.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 1990s, Album, eOne


Time Heals Nothing is the third studio album by the band Crowbar, released in 1995 through Pavement Music.

Album: Broken Glass by Crowbar (1996)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Description: Broken Glass is the fourth album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on October 29, 1996 through Pavement Music.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 1990s, Album, eOne

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Broken Glass is the fourth album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on October 29, 1996 through Pavement Music.

Album: Equilibrium by Crowbar (2000)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: Spitfire Records
Format: Album

Description: Equilibrium is the sixth studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released March 7, 2000 through Spitfire Records.
 It was original bassist Todd Strange's final album with the band.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 2000s, Album, Spitfire Records

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Equilibrium is the sixth studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released March 7, 2000 through Spitfire Records.
 It was original bassist Todd Strange's final album with the band.

Album: The Serpent Only Lies by Crowbar (2016)
Genre: Sludge Metal
Record Label: eOne
Format: Album

Description: The Serpent Only Lies is the eleventh studio album by the American sludge metal band Crowbar. It was released on October 28, 2016, through eOne Music.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, 2010s, Album, eOne


The Serpent Only Lies is the eleventh studio album by the American sludge metal band Crowbar. It was released on October 28, 2016, through eOne Music.

Album: Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form by Crowbar (2001)
Genre: Sludge Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: Spitfire Records
Format: Album

Description: Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form is the seventh studio album by Crowbar, a New Orleans-based sludge metal band. It was released August 21, 2001through Spitfire Records. 
 It is the last album to feature guitarist Sammy Duet, and the first and only album to feature bassist Jeff Okoneski and ex-Machine Head drummer Tony Costanza.
Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form has been considered by most fans and critics to be one of Crowbar's best albums.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, Metal, 2000s, Album, Spitfire Records

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form is the seventh studio album by Crowbar, a New Orleans-based sludge metal band. It was released August 21, 2001through Spitfire Records. 
 It is the last album to feature guitarist Sammy Duet, and the first and only album to feature bassist Jeff Okoneski and ex-Machine Head drummer Tony Costanza.
Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form has been considered by most fans and critics to be one of Crowbar's best albums.

Album: Symmetry in Black by Crowbar (2014)
Genre: Sludge Metal
Record Label: Century Media
Format: Album

Description: Symmetry in Black is the tenth studio album by the American sludge metal band Crowbar. It was released on May 26, 2014 in Europe via Century Media Records and on May 27, 2014 in North America via eOne Music. This was the only album to feature bassist Jeff Golden, who was fired from the band in 2016.

Artist Background: Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Their slow, heavy, and brooding style of metal is known to be influential in the sludge metal, doom metal, and stoner metal genres. Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down, Soilent Green

Music Scene: Part of the New Orleans, Louisiana, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Sludge Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Sludge Metal, 2010s, Album, Century Media


Symmetry in Black is the tenth studio album by the American sludge metal band Crowbar. It was released on May 26, 2014 in Europe via Century Media Records and on May 27, 2014 in North America via eOne Music. This was the only album to feature bassist Jeff Golden, who was fired from the band in 2016.

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