Sloooow Music
A lot of people (especially metalheads) like their music fast and completely ignore all the excellent slow stuff there is. That's why I'm making a neat lil' list of awesome slow-mo shizzle to make people know about the slothful side of musical life (and because I'm bored).
The albums are not in any order. |
| 1 |  | Black Sabbath
Master Of Reality
An early metal classic, released in 1971. And guess what? It ain't blazingly fast, but slow and grinding. Was punishing back then, remains punishing today. |
| 2 |  | Melvins
Bullhead
This takes the ideas of slowness and heaviness and filters them through post-punk weirdness. Ugly and unrelentless, the Melvins' most cohesive album to date. Plus Boris (aka 2 chords for 8 minutes) rules. |
| 3 | | Sunn O)))
White 2
More metal. But even more abstract this time. Landscapes of blackened guitar feedback, combined with several other instruments. Attila Csihar (of Mayhem fame) joins on the last track. Its predecessor, White 1 is also highly recommended. |
| 4 |  | Low
Things We Lost In The Fire
How about some hypnotically slow, mellow and sad indie rock from a coupla Mormons? Dig this |
| 5 |  | Earth
Hex: Or Printing In The Infernal Method
Or some drone-driven spaghetti Western country music from the original inventors of the "Drone Doom Metal" genre? |
| 6 | | Spacemen 3
The Perfect Preion
Combines shameless 60's Garage ripoffs with a sort of minimalist-composerish approach. Two droning, clean guitars, weak sissy-ass vocals and buried drums. Gets boring at lengths, but still quite good. |
| 7 | | Boris
Feedbacker
Metal again. This time from Japan. This an is awesome 43-minute one-song album (not some kinda suite), that combines doom metal, shoegaze music, progressive rock and drone music. Epic. |
| 8 |  | Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
Black Earth
Gloomy slow-mo funeral jazz from Germany. Easily one of the most innovative jazz ensembles currently at work. Their more recent album Geisterfaust comes pretty close to a "jazz" version of Sunn O))). |
| 9 |  | Saint Vitus
Born Too Late
Bare-bones doom metal classic. Has a somewhat raw, punky feel. A bit Sabbath-ripoffy in places though. |
| 10 |  | Sleep
Dopesmoker
A 60+ minute one-song stoner rock album that's guaranteed to give you physical headaches when listened to at the right volume. |
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