Label: Earth
Released 2023
Since 1989, the slowest metal band on the planet has conjured some of music’s most striking tectonic changes. Not only did the band create a glacially paced subgenre of metal and play a pivotal role in the popularization of grunge, but visionary leader Dylan Carlson also did it while battling small-town boredom, heroin addiction, and the tragic death of his roommate and best friend, Kurt Cobain. Despite the high volume of its beloved and beautiful drone metal, the band has rarely had much to say for itself. For the first time, in a moving saga that respects the music as much as the ragtag cast of eccentrics and surreal Pacific Northwest majesty that shaped it, Clyde Petersen gets to the core of the could-have-been-tragic triumph of the slow band that changed everything it touched.
CD Track listing:
- Omage 1: The Unbearable Weight Of History
- Omage 2: Stoney Bone Child
- 16 Tracks And Not Gonna Make It Home Tonight
- Is Anyone Out There
- The Dark And Bloody Ground
- Queen Anne's Revenge
- No Ponderable Fire
- Fire
- The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Live)
- Rocker
- Wind
- This Bitter Glory
- The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Dub)
- Bear Flag Rising
- A Glorious Defeat
- Thunder