I haven't listened to anything from southern lord in a long, long time. I remember they used to put these little things on their CD's advertising their other bands. Every fucking band, whether it was Goatsnake or Thorr's Hammer was described as "Sabbath Fried" or "From the bowels of Black Sabbath" or "The sick love-child of Black Sabbath and Pentagram". I didn't know if those two goofs actually thought every one of their bands sounded like Sabbath, or if it was some kind of inside joke that went as far as to be passed on to the consumer.
There used to be this guy that would show up at every show I went to who would get wasted and would end up stomping around the back of the crowd screaming "Black Sabbath!!!!". Me and my friends always joked that he was probably related to Greg Anderson.
Heh, I used to like to think of Eye Hate God as Black Sabbath in the midsts of a bad crack binge.........
Sabbath is a huge basis for the sludge sub genre in general but at some point it just turns into another cliche' buzz word like "blastbeat" "brutal" "sick" "pulverizing" whatever. .....hard to be avoided when only so many adjectives or ways you can re-arrange them to describe a type of music.
....That would actually be pretty funny to use that as a direct description of a band like Thor's Hammer......seemed like they would have aped some older doom death originators like "the bastard child of Winter and Anathema's Crest Fallen demo!"
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