Just saw Orbit Culture and holy shit, they ruled! one of the tightest and heaviest sounding live bands I've seen in a bit. The drummer and vocalist are beasts live. And a pretty impressive light / stage show too. Small (sad) but passionate crowd. Was an awesome show. Recommending them!
If you can convince Amanda to let me abandon my responsibilities for a few days after United Blood, let's go then.
Bandcamp only had two tracks which was a bummer but I checked out the whole thing on streaming. Very solid.
So can anybody provide any insight why Crowbar is blowing up on social media now? Seems like everyone on IG is hyping them up at the moment.
Tik Tok most likely but one of my mates saw Crowbar on their UK tour and he said at least 90% of the crowd he was at was in their early/mid to late 20's and the older crowd were at the back and it was sold out.. like most of the UK dates were sold out way in advance and 3 dates were sold out like a week before the tour started!
Tik Tok got ahold of them. Young people are realllllly loving them currently. Pretty fucking sick lol
Yeah it's wild. I saw them pre pandemic and there was maybe 100 people at the gig. Fast forward to last weekend and they played a sold out show here to over 1000.
I'm not sure but I have noticed way more teenagers/early 20s people getting more into atmospheric and slow genres like sludge and post metal. Also on the non-metal side kids are loving shoegaze and grunge too. I think the kids are just getting depressed and fairly so.
tiktok/instagram meme about overweight people liking them i think is the root. i could think of better ways for an old band to blow up, but happy for them nonetheless lol
I just checked Crowbar's Spotify monthly listeners and they have 1.4 million monthly listeners, that's a hell of a jump from before!
Regardless of where, they deserve it. I was just curious. More just an old man wondering why the clouds look like they do instead of yelling at them.