The moment you hear them, you know it's Crowbar, the powerful, atmospheric and crushingly heavy sludge metal band from New Orleans.
Praised by Pitchfork, VICE and Metal Hammer and twice immortalised by MTV's Beavis And Butt-Head, the group is revered by the broken and downtrodden - those who exorcise their demons with smoke-filled riffs of melancholy desolation.
Crowbar is one of those bands that has a far-reaching influence on several genres and "helped shape the blueprints of sludge metal" (Kerrang!).
Crowbar songs are unvarnished emotional outpourings, displaying a hard-hitting determination alongside their soulful vulnerability, and are reliably delivered with crushing harshness.