| Influences | Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Neurosis, Earth, America and its roots
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ACROSS TUNDRAS Dark Songs Of The Prairie CD
The first full length album from Denver's ACROSS TUNDRAS follows up
their Divides EP with eight jams of majestic heaviness. Carved out of
heavy syrup riffage and spacious melodies, Dark Songs Of The Prairie is
like hearing a mysterious 70's country rock outfit thawed out and
refitted with mighty amplification, sludgecore tempos, and shoegazey
shimmer that effortlessly conjures images of the wide open prairies and
looming mountains of the band's home territory. As weighty as the
melodic heaviness coming from the from the whole "post-metal" camp, but
coming from a different place altogether, ACROSS TUNDRAS draw a
tangential line from Neil Young to HUM to NEUROSIS, and unleash a
powerful new statement of rustic, crushing Americana. Features former
members of Sioux Falls, SD post-hardcore outfits SPIRIT OF VERSAILLES
and EXAMINATION OF THE...
"Vast expanses of guitar crunch that owe as much to the wide open spaces of Morricones soundtack vistas as Neurosis' San Francisco bonfires and the mind expanding buzz of Crazy Horse. Now don't expect any of Ennio's twang - this is the album the Neil Young of Earth 2 made with Black Sabbath. ( I think it was called Everybody Knows This Is Sweet Leaf. Or was it Cortez the War Pig?)" - Decibel Magazine
"Guitars are echoey, melancholy, chiming things on these long, rambling songs. The drums are shambling and loud, while the vocals are buried in the mix, seemingly coming from some faraway place like a stranger's voice carried on the wind. The overall effect is lonesome and vast, NEUROSIS in a Larry McMurtry Western novel, doom metal meets Americana in some weird place where PELICAN listened to more THIN WHITE ROPE albums and did a lot of 'shrooms while camping in South Dakota and slowly going batshit crazy from the sheer emptiness of it all." - Blabbermouth.net |
