If Crowbar’s new album is any indication, then New Orleans’ sludge metal is back on top of the scum pond for 2022. Zero and Below is the band’s twelfth studio album and has no signs of this three decades running group slowing down anytime soon. Which is good news because, admittedly, I wasn’t too into 2016’s The Serpent Only Lies. Don’t get me wrong. I really wanted to like Serpent and gave it multiple spins when it came out. But oftentimes that particular album felt uninspired and sluggish. Sure, it had some good moments like “I Am The Storm” and the title track, but overall it just didn’t do it for me despite the effort. However, that’s not the case with Zero and Below. This 10 track beast blasts through 42 minutes and 50 seconds of headbanging, hell-raising, metal. I’d say the pandemic ...
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