Various Artists / Doom Capital - Maryland/Dc Heavy Rock Underground
Album: Doom Capital - Maryland/Dc Heavy Rock Underground   Collection:General
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Oct 2005
Label:Crucial Blast  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-10-23 Pull Date: 2005-12-25 Charts: Loud
Week Ending: Dec 25 Dec 11 Nov 27 Nov 6 Oct 30
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 31, 2005: Bloodstains Across Atherton - From Beyond The Grave or The Beast Of 2005
Grip The Wheel
4. Nov 26, 2005: Bloodstains Across Atherton
Rebellion
2. Dec 21, 2005: Brownian Motion - Now With Bloodstains
Breathing Rust
5. Nov 05, 2005: Bloodstains Across Atherton
Black Sky
3. Dec 10, 2005: Bloodstains Across Atherton
Grip The Wheel
6. Oct 27, 2005: Baptism of Solitude
Grip The Wheel

Album Review
Ragnar of Ravensfjord
Reviewed 2007-08-05
This is a pretty solid look into the capital o’ doom’s current scene. D.C. & Maryland have been pumping out a ton of doom metal/stoner rock for years. A good number of them are on here (& a few classics aren’t: Pentagram, The Obsessed & Spirit Caravan). There’s a lot of big riffs and the requisite sludge tempos

(((1))) So-so vocals early 70’s bombast Bonham-like drumming, boogie tempo. A better & heavier Black Label Society?
(((((2))))) Heaaavy! Big, badass with snarlin’ biker doom rawk. As if Blue Cheer & Motorhead had baby.
(((((3)))) Excellent mix of classic hard rock & doom with Wino’s distant vocals. Battering drumming & rhythm.
((((4)))) Not much of a Sabbath rip-off like before, more like 80’s doom metal ‘ala Witchfinder General with a wah pedal.
(((5))) Wailing guitars, heavy breakdowns serious Trouble worship. Mostly so-so.
(((6))) Slow, heavy psych/stoner rock instrumental.
((7)) Beefy, “Vol. 4”-ish riffing, winding tempo, kinda goes downhill with the bland vox.
((((8)))) Solid, thick St. Vitus/Witchfinder General mix.
((((9)))) Loud & downtrodden & pained vocals. Thudding & tighly wrapped riffs.
(10) W.T.F. ? Danzig joined a stoner rock band?
(((((11))))) Slooowww doooom metal! In the spirit of Sleep, Warhorse, Yob.
((12)) More stoner rock with bland to shitty vocals. (Can you stay “It’s almost Stone Temple Pilots?”)
(((13))) Mid-paced, weird noodly heavy grunge rock mixed with metal? Not bad but out of place.
((14)) Heavy boogie-rawk that honestly sounds like a stoned out Skynrd.

Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. Clutch Sea Of Destruction
2. Earthride Grip The Wheel
3. Hidden Hand, The Rebellion
4. Internal Void Black Wings Of Deceit
5. Life Beyond Rising Sunn
6. Nitroseed Class War
7. Unorthodox Lifeline
8. Countershaft Black Sky
9. War Injun Dangerous Prayer
10. Black Manta Days Of Yore
11. Leviathan Ad Breathing Rust
12. King Valley $2 Brain
13. Carrion Damned To Know
14. Los Tres Pesados The Ruler