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…
“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…