Invisible Oranges posted a free mixtape of up-and-coming American bands in doom, sludge, and stoner metal, including Orchid, Uzala, USX, Across Tundras, Archon and more, on line. Download Slow & Low 2 – American Filth HERE.
“After I made the above graphic (which took a while for my meager design skills) and uploaded a carefully constructed mixtape, I realized I forgot about the previous Slow & Low #2. So I guess we’ll have two #2s – oops. Evidently, I am slow as well. Anyway, slow music: I get so much of this stuff – I’ve yet to make it through 2009’s Deutschland’s Doomed Vol. 1 compilation, which is eight hours long – that it’s hard to know where to start. On my desktop, my “Slow & Low” folder has a bunch of subfolders: “Epic Doom”, “Melodic Doom”, “UK Doom”, and so on. Each of those could spawn their own subfolders; each could be its own blog!
I’ll start at home. Americans invented fuzz; it still remains the most salient American contribution to metal. (See, e.g., sludge metal and a lot of USBM.) Maybe this compilation should be called “American Fuzz”, but, again, I already made the above graphic, and I’m sticking to it. We Americans are dirty. We let it all hang out (for better or for worse). These tones are fuzzy. They have air. They breathe. Think not Eyehategod’s suffocating weight, but something more open-ended. It’s not night all the time here. 10 songs, 63 minutes: hopefully you’ll find a new favorite band or two” – Cosmo Lee / Invisible Oranges.
Tags: Across Tundras, Archon, Atriarch, doom, Invisible Oranges, Orchid, Phantom Glue, Slow & Low, sludge, stoner metal, USX, Uzala
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