Crowbar

Despite Crowbar’s official date of birth being 1990, their beginnings reach the end of the 80s. To be more precise: in 1988, Kirk Windstein joined the hardcore band ShellShock, where he met the drummer Jimmy Bower. The lads quickly hit it off and after their short yet tumultuous time with the band, they went their own way.

That’s how Crowbar began, debuting already in 1991 with an album called “Obedience thru Suffering”. The never-before-seen mixture of the power of doom and the insanity of hardcore became a sensation in the New Orleans underground, and with time, in the whole country. Their self-titled album, released two years later resulted in fame, fans, great sales and a lot of air-time on MTV. Ever since then the band keeps their release tempo without any greater obstructions – they’ve recorded twelve albums all together. The same can be said about their exorbitant reputation, thanks to which they remain one of the most important sludge metal bands, despite, interestingly, Kirk Windstein’s disdain for the term. Their latest album is the 2022 “Zero and Below”.