NEWS
2019/11/30
Like an avuncular sludge metal Sauron, Kirk Windstein is the Lord Of The Riffs. As the godfather of the NOLA scene with Crowbar and Down, he’s cranked out more head-crushing, riff-packed metal monsters than pretty much anyone else you could think of. Planets Collide was something different. The opening track proper to Crowbar’s 1998 masterpiece Odd Fellows Rest, it still bleeds heaviness but in a far more subtle way. Packed with melancholic melodies and one of the most emotive vocal performances Kirk has yet come up with, it saw the band spreading their wings to try something new. The experiment worked, as it remains a fan favourite and signature song more than two decades on. Here Kirk tells us how Planets Collide took shape and how it was inspired by talk radio and substance ab...
