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Description: To a Frown is the debut album by Sludge Metal band Buzzov*en, originally released through Allied Recordings in 1993. The album has since gone out of print, although it is available in a remastered form (in its entirety) on the compilation album Welcome to Violence. Track listing: 1. "To a Frown" -- 3:43 2. "Shove" -- 2:11 3. "Drained" -- 5:21 4. "Forget It" -- 2:29 5. "Frayed" -- 3:37 6. "Splinter My Eye" -- 2:02 7. "Wound" -- 4:06 8. "Toe Fry" -- 2:22 9. "Aching Improv" -- 3:43 10. "Weeding" -- 7:50 Personell: Kirk - Vocals, Guitar Igor - Bass Ash - Drums Billy Anderson - Engineer, Producer Pat Grimple - Backing vocals on "Shove" and "Splinter My Eye" Harvey Bennett Stafford -- Cover painting The band's style is a dirty and in your face brand of sludgy southern mayhem, but while just as caustic and drenched in feedback and drug consumption as, say, Eyehategod and the like, Buzzoven's songwriting was much more graspable than their contemporaries - blending filthy hardcore/punk rock with twisted dissonance, a sense of noisy chaotic underpinnings, and a generally grimy disposition that offers a ton of tempo changes from the energetic and borderline catchy (in a vile rock 'n' roll kind of way) to pounding and dirge-like surges. And the vocals are snarlingly unhinged shouts/screams that aren't necessarily as over the top as you might anticipate, definitely playing into the air of intensely bitter depression and pessimism expressed through this material. Plus there are plenty of sampled segues lending some atmosphere to all that bitter attitude. So in the end they have as much in common with Fudge Tunnel as they do with Eyehategod, among others, with an end result that's more their own individual presence. And what about songs like "Weeding"? Like other tracks herein there are definite hints of what could be called "doom" or "stoner rock" in this slow paced bruiser, but I'd hesitate to lean too far in that kind of a direction, because most of this stuff feels more rhythmic, more disturbed, and... I don't know... it's just not really in that vein, you know? It's just pissed off and fucked up and sinister, and they're not fucking around. They avoid the trappings of most of those genres entirely though, its more the band's background and overall character that lumps them in with that stuff... I mean, these guys were the real deal, you know? |
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