Crowbar (album)

Crowbar
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 12, 1993
RecordedNew Orleans
GenreSludge metal
Length36:12
LabelPavement Music
ProducerPhil Anselmo
Crowbar chronology
Obedience thru Suffering
(1991)
Crowbar
(1993)
Time Heals Nothing
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Crowbar is the second studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on October 12, 1993. It sold 100,000 copies on the now defunct independent label Pavement Music. The singles "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence Is Punishment" were played on MTV and received international attention. Crowbar was recorded in New Orleans in 1992 and produced by Phil Anselmo, a childhood friend of Crowbar's founder Kirk Windstein and singer of Pantera.

Track listing

All songs written by Crowbar, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."High Rate Extinction"2:44
2."All I Had (I Gave)"3:11
3."Will That Never Dies"3:56
4."Fixation"3:46
5."No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin cover)4:30
6."Self-Inflicted"2:45
7."Negative Pollution"3:11
8."Existence Is Punishment"4:29
9."Holding Nothing"3:13
10."I Have Failed"4:22
Total length:36:12

Personnel

Music videos

  • "All I Had (I Gave)"
  • "Existence Is Punishment"

Both videos appeared on Beavis and Butt-Head. Butt-Head commented that in "All I Had (I Gave)", vocalist Kirk Windstein looked like he was defecating on the toilet and that the band's music sounded "slow and fat". "Existence Is Punishment" appears on the Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection #3 DVD, originally in "Safe House".

References

  1. ^ Jeffries, Vincent. "Crowbar - Crowbar". AllMusic.