Crowbar recording new album

5 October 2010 | 7:26 pm | Staff Writer
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New Orleans sludge metal legends Crowbar have revealed that they are in the process of writing new material. 

New Orleans sludge metal legends Crowbar have revealed that they are in the process of writing new material.


In a recent interview with MetalSucks the band's singer and guitarist Kirk Windstein stated that the band is well into the process of recording a new album, the first since 2005's "Lifesblood for the Downtrodden". Windstein said, "I should be finishing guitars tonight. I'm going there with the intention of them being finished on the 12 tracks ... I started vocals and have a lot of lyrics written already."


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"There is one more thing to be done on bass. The drums have been complete [for a while]. So we're really moving along well. It's just a matter of finishing everything up."


Formed in 1991, Crowbar have cast a long shadow over subsequent hardcore and metal. The band's eighth studio album will be mixed by the iconic producer Zeuss who has been at the helm of countless releases by bands like Hatebreed, Madball, The Acacia Strain and Bleeding Through. On the sound of the album Windstein added, "It encompasses every influence and every style that Crowbar has ever done through the course of the previous 8 studio records - over the course of the last 20 years. Some of the stuff sounds very similar to our very early stuff and some of it is stuff that we've never done before."


"It's just Crowbar. It's heavy. It's aggressive. It's dark. It's fast at times. It's very melodic and super doom metal at times. It's a real thunderous collection of tunes. I'm very excited about it."


To read more of this interview head over to MetalSucks here.