Regress, Slabdragger
2February 8, 2012 by hhbrady
Slabdragger is a great band name, one;
Two, any band that describes themselves as “blues/ jam band/ metal” is worth at least checking out;
Three, their lyrical themes are classified as “epic journeys, weed, sea monsters…”;
Lastly, all this positive foreshadowing actually pays off: this is cool shit. Doomy, screamed sludge metal. “Bab el-Mandeb” is a great sludge tune, “Erroneous Maximus” rocks a vaguely-funky California stoner riff, “Trichome Oddyssey” is a wildly-heavy Pink Floyd, and “Iron Vulture” is the lost Sabbath tune they wish they wrote.
As near as I can ascertain, they’re a three-piece from London. Hopefully they’ll explode over the next few years. They should.
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Don’t forget Centurions Ghost and Conan (from London and Mercyside, respectively); truly great doom bands from the UK.
I like the sound of this. I don’t know much good UK metal and I’d like to remedy that.