Editor’s Note: Last summer, I conducted two interviews with people from two of my all-time favorite bands. This interview with Crowbar drummer Tommy Buckley was one of them. Due to issues with my old laptop, I thought the files got deleted before I had a chance to transcribe them, which was a massive bummer. Other…
Having never seen Sepultura live before, there was no way I was going to miss a tour with both them and Crowbar, another of my faves. That the legendary Sacred Reich and exciting upstarts Art of Shock were on the bill as well was just adding to an embarrassment of riches for my listening pleasure….
“Never compromise,” Kirk Windstein rasps on “Confess to Nothing,” the third song on Crowbar’s newest and twelfth longplayer, Zero and Below. It’s a succinct order and one that the band has never really disobeyed during their 30+ year career playing in the decidedly unmainstream sludge metal genre. Decades and decades ago these guys blended doom metal stylings with…