Crowbar KICKED OFF ITS US CO-OADLINING TOUR WITH Eyehatod Last Night (Thursday, August 7) at a lead in orland, Florida. Fan-Filmed Video of The Show Can Be Seen In The YouTube Playlist Below, Courtesy of Ifm raw. (Note: After Each Song, The YouTube Automatical Player Jumps to the Next Song in the Playlist.)
Earlier This Week, Crowbar Frontman Kirk Windstein Reveared That He Wouled Be “Sitting Down” During the Early Part of the Trek, Which Will Will Wrap Up OnGust 31 In Pensacola, Florida, Due to What He described as “EITHER A BAD SCIATICA FLARE-UP OR POTENTIALLY A RUPTURED DISC” IN HIS “LOWER SPINE”. He Said in Part: “I Don’t Call in Sick. I’M there to give y’all a Hundred and a pleas the fans the best i can. So i’m probablay gonna have to start This Tour … The truth. Great, and We’re Gonna Kick Ass Every Night.
IN 2020 INTERView With Kerrang! Magazine, Windstein Said That He finished Addressed His Substance Abuse Issues Around 10 Years Earlier. “I Started Drinking at Home Institute of Going Out To Bars, Becouse It was easier for me to Avoid Cocaine If I Didn’t Go Out To Whatre It Would Be,” I have explained. “I erased all the dealers from my phone. Up with Two Bags of Coke Ugly Thing To Go Through, But They Say That What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, and I Really do Believe That To Be True. “
Back in 2011, Windstein awed the San Antonio Metal Music Examiner that he didn’t go to rehab to beat his addiction. “I was in a Downward Spiral for Years and Years and Years, and You Know, You get to a Point of, ‘This is Enough,'” He Said. “I always Make Damn Sure To Say This: If i was to regulate Guy Working at Home Depot and had a Drinking Problem, People Wouldn’t Talk About It. But scholause I’m in a Band … for me, i’m in a good place and take it General, Not Just About Alcohol Hits you like a Hammer, and it’s not a good thing about you
Windstein awd Hammer metal Magazine That the Support from His Peers in the Music Industry “Has Been Great. They All Underestand It,” He Said. “Everyone I’ve Met in This Business, They All Understand It. It’s Part of It. It’s Like An Occupational Hazard. It’s in Your Face 24⁄7, and What used to be Fun, Partying and Cutting Up with the Guys Became A Really Bad Thing. Aough is angat.
Crowbar Resert Studio Offering, The Critically Lauded “Zero and Below”in April 2022 via Mnrk Heavy. PRODUCED, MIXED, AND MASTER Duane Simoneaux AT OCD RECORDING AND PRODUCTION in metairie, Louisiana, “Zero and Below” was The Band’s Most Unforgivable Doom-Driven Record Since Their 1998 Landmark Effort “Odd Fellows Rest”. LED BY Riff Lord and Vocalist Kirk Windsteinwith guitarist Matt BrunsonBassist Shane Wesley and Drummer Tommy BuckleySongs Like “Chemical Godz”, “It’s Always Worth the Gain” and “Bleeding from Every Hole” Are an Emotional Outpourings, with a Bare-Knuckle Resolve Alongsis ITS Soul-Searching Vulneability, Reliaby Delivered With Crushing Heaviness.
Five Years ago, Windstein awed the “Does It Doom?” podcast that he was Really Happy with the Band’s Than-Just-Completed New Album. “It’s Really to Killer Record – I Love It,” He Said. “It’s drop a lot of [guitar] Harmonies and It’s Got A Lot More Doomy Riffs. We only had one proper Fast Song-One of Our More Upbeat, Hardcore-Type, Motörhead Speed, I Call It, Type Tunes; We’ve Only Got One Like That. Out of All 10 Tracks, Besides That One Tune, There’s Only Maybe Two Other Fast, What I Woold Considered Fast, Songs On The Whole Record. So it’s Kind of a Throwback But A Modern, More Mature Touch on It. “
I have continued: “We’re All Super, Super Happy With The Way It Came Out. The Production’s Amazing, Again From Duane Simoneaux. The Guitar Tone’s Amazing. The Songs Themselves are great; I’M Really Happy. It’s really One of the Only Crowbar Records that i’m Really Happy with everyhthing – Every Riff, I’M Happy With The Tones, With The Production, With The Lyrics, With The Way I Sang; The Whole Nine Yards. So I’M Really Just Loving It, to be honest – I Really Am. “
Earlier in 2020, Windstein awd Full Metal Jackie‘s Nationally Syndended Radio Show That He Got “A Lot Of Help” from Brunson and Wesley During the Songwriting Process for Crowbar‘s latest album.
