Meanderthal

by Torche

Meanderthal cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 April 2008
  • Label: Hydra Head
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:16
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Kurt Ballou

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Kurt Ballou, the second full-length from the Miami quartet brilliantly merges the punishing, low-end guitar tuning of sludge metal with the undeniably catchy vocal hooks of alternative power-pop. The tracks are remarkably bright and triumphant, aggressively shedding the typical bleak aesthetics of doom metal in favor of soaring, harmonized stadium rock melodies. It is widely considered a defining masterpiece of modern 'sludge-pop'.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, sludge, loud, infectious, punchy, distorted, riff-heavy, massive

Tracklist

  1. Triumph of Venus (1:44)
  2. Grenades (2:53)
  3. Pirana (1:31)
  4. Sandstorm (2:19)
  5. Speed of the Nail (1:41)
  6. Healer (2:07)
  7. Across the Shields (3:03)
  8. Sundown (3:17)
  9. Little Champion (0:34)
  10. Without a Sound (2:06)
  11. Fat Waves (4:32)
  12. Amnesian (6:25)
  13. Meanderthal (3:58)

Credits

  • Aaron Turner - artwork [all other art]
  • Juan Montoya - illustration [character drawings], performer
  • Jonathan Nu帽ez - performer
  • Rick Smith - performer
  • Steve Brooks - performer

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