I realized two things today; 1) I am extremely bored, and 2) I haven’t written about music in ages. Thankfully the later can be remedied quite easily and I am wonder if the people in the apartment across the street is doing porn or something because that cameraflash that keeps going off in there just in the corner of my eye is getting rather annoying… Or maybe it’s lightening, I don’t know. Anyhoo, where the hell was I? Ah, yes, confounding and confusing flash of light, you nearly had me loosing my train of thought for a second, but I remember now! Writing about music. I am not the most well versed in the finer subtleties of the wast and wonderful world of music, but as the saying goes, “I know what I like”, so I’m gonna start of this “writing about music”-thing by writing a bit about one of my all time favorite albums that I’ve recently gotten hooked on again. That album being Over the Under by Down. It’s slow, sludgy and it’s just about the most perfect southern groove you can find these days.
While I love my metal fast and hard, this slow and sludgy sound strikes something with me and I get into the groove every time I listen to it. Maybe it’s the summer heat? Over the Under is great listening for a slow and hot day when you don’t bother doing anything else. The band is probably most famous for Phil Anselmo and it is a worthy follow up to the fucking epic that was Pantera. His vocals lends themselves perfectly to this sound, which is a fair bit slower than the usual Pantera sthick.
I’m trying to single out a tune from the album that is worth mentioning, but it’s a bit difficult as they’re all pretty damned good, but if I’m have to pick one to mention, and I do, I told myself that I had to… If I don’t do what I tell myself, I wake up with bruises and have to tell everyone that I “fell down the stairs”… Sometimes I can be a bit of a bastard. Oh! Song, yes! To pick out a tune that really stands above all the rest for me, I’ll have to go with “Never Try”. The song has influences from blues, mixed with the heavy and thick sludge that good southern metal should have. At times the album in total reminds me of a more laidback Entombed with a better sense of groove.
So, to round off what I’ve been saying here; Slow, sludge and groovy. I guess that’s all that I’ve got to bring to the table this time around… But what the hell, at least I killed some time writing this sthick, so I win! Take that, Gadget! In your face!
Yes, yes, I’ll stop rambling now. But I just have to mention one last thing; That is one sweet piece of cover art! …and it was not the reason why I checked out the album at first, honest.
