Dark Songs of the Prairie

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Total Tracks: 8   Total Length: 51:32

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Lighter Side of The Amp

HUTCH13

Bobuar and AMG get it. Doom based - but with a rootsy folk tweak. I know it sounds diametrically opposed but it works. Think slow Boris, and especially, Witch. Very good slow, sludge with a touch of melody.

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eclecticly influenced

Bobuar

sometimes the raw hardcore riffs are evident, at others it takes a more Beck-esque grassroots stance and induces some swamp boot stompin'. You very well might like this if you are into DOOM, but the heaviness isn't always there and that's why I like this album. It sorta remindes me of "On the Shore" by Friends of Dean Martinez in overall feel.

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Although the steady sluggish tempos would suggest that Across Tundras is a doom metal band, it’s not that cut and dried of a case — as evidenced by their full-length debut, 2006′s Dark Songs of the Prairie. Hailing from Denver, the group is comprised of former members of local hardcore outfits, but their sound is equal parts Neil Young & Crazy Horse jams (à la their classic “Cortez the Killer”) and the modern-day ambient metal of Isis. The song structures are long and meandering (some would say even a bit mind numbing), while the mumbled/distant vocals are barely audible — it’s clear by such selections as “If God Cuts You Down” that the group’s main focus is the long instrumental passages. And just when you think that Across Tundras is all about maxing out the tubes in their amplifiers, along comes a track like “The Old Sexton,” which is acoustic based (but yet again, includes mumble-mouth vocals). With their long metallic jams, Across Tundras certainly sticks out from the overcrowded metal pack. – Greg Prato

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