Crowbar – Crowbar (CD)

Kirk Windstein built Crowbar out of the wreckage of Pastorius-era New Orleans metal, forging a sound so rooted in the city's humidity and heaviness that it became its own genre. This self-titled record is where that blueprint locked in, the slow, crushing riffs and Windstein's raw howl establishing the template that would influence a generation of sludge metal bands. For anyone tracing the lineage of Southern doom, this is where the thread begins.