Venerable

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 March 2011
  • Label: Profound Lore
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 42:44
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Stewart Levine, Hugh Masekela

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Kurt Ballou of Converge, this release firmly established the Canadian power trio as a formidable force in underground extreme music. 'Venerable' channels intense misanthropic anger through a crushing amalgamation of noise rock discordance and metallic sludge.

Genres

Descriptors: sludge, noisy, antireligious, abrasive, distorted, dissonant, monolithic, punishing

Tracklist

  1. The Book of Muscle (3:28)
  2. Obeying the Iron Will (4:27)
  3. Batholith (3:33)
  4. The Irate Jumbuck (7:26)
  5. A Wicked Pike (2:51)
  6. Flight of the Echo Hawk (3:39)
  7. Never Was (8:16)
  8. The Ugliest Happy You've Ever Seen (3:03)
  9. Terrify the Animals (2:58)
  10. Mako Shark (2:58)

Credits

  • Hugh Masekela - primary artist, trumpet [uncredited], vocals [uncredited], written-by
  • Harold Dotson - bass [uncredited]
  • Red Mitchell - bass [uncredited]
  • Big Black - congas [uncredited]
  • Chuck Carter - drums [uncredited]
  • Mike McGriff - drums [uncredited]
  • Barney Kessel - guitar [uncredited]
  • Roy Gaines - guitar [uncredited]

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