I decided to use this as a place to recommend albums for people to check out and talk about the goings on of my life. I seem to think for some reason that by doing this I can show some people albums that I love that they may not have heard and that they might like too.
Here goes nothing,
Bongzilla - Gateway (2002)
The first time I heard this band was probably around 4 years ago and straight away I thought...FUCK, this is amazing...at the time pretty much everything I was listening to was either ridiculously technical death metal or your standard black metal bands. I was exposed to a handful of bands like Eyehategod, Sleep, Sourvein, Weedeater, Buzzoven etc. and this happened to be one of the discs that was shown to me as well and instantly fell in love with the clear worship of the blues, marijuana, tuning low and playing slow.
This album is filled with fuzzed out riffs, throat ripping vocals, slow as fuck blues scales and a whole lot of samples about the bands illicit substance of choice. From the first track 'Greenthumb' until the final track 'Hashdealer' this is a great album to sit back to and appreciate the finer elements of the sludge metal genre, there are too many great riffs to mention and too many samples to even quote. If you are even remotely into sludge I highly recommend you give this album a listen.
In other news, Slowburn finished off another song last night that I am immensely happy with and is helping shape what will eventually be an album into something that I know I will be really proud of. I cant wait to start showing people these songs as I feel they are the finest representation of us as a band and to put it simply blow the old songs out of the water.
more soon,
-aaron
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