Are you the dude who goes apeshit every time they bust out “Self-Inflicted” or “Burn Your World” live? Then stretch those old bones and get ready to tear it up to hardcore punk-infused hybrids “I am the Storm” and “The Enemy Beside You.” Are you the choked-up bloke staggering intensely around the now-empty pit during “Planets Collide” and “The Lasting Dose?” Then crushing sludge ballads (yeah, I said it) “Surviving the Abyss” and “Embrace the Light” are for you. The Serpent Only Lies is as heavy as you’d expect and has songs to please every type of Crowbar fan. Turns out, the Riff Lord’s claim is equally rhetorical and existential. The band’s new merch even bears the new slogan.
After 25-plus years of cementing Crowbar’s “None Heavier” status, mastermind Kirk Windstein characterizing “Falling While Rising” – the first single off the New Orleans sludge pioneers’ eleventh studio album The Serpent Only Lies – as “heavier than ever,” came as a bit of a head-scratcher and set high expectations.
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