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List Price : $10.98 Price : $14.40
List Price : $10.98 Price : $14.40
Album Description
2011 album from the Portland-based Metal band. Witch Mountain was formed in 1997 by Rob Wrong and SUNN0))) collaborator Nathan Carson. By 2000, the groundwork had been laid, the demo Homegrown Doom remastered and released in Europe, and Dave Hoopaugh was brought in on bass. Debut album Come the Mountain was released to critical acclaim in 2001; the first printing sold out in two months.
South of Salem Reviews
South of Salem Reviews
| 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful  Not enough GREAT metal with clean vocals like this!, This review is from: South of Salem [Explicit] (MP3 Download) I just got this album on vinyl (only 5/500 more left of this pressing before you gotta wait for Profound Lore to reissue it en-masse!) and I'm listening to my mp3 copy now.... BRUUUTAL! God, if you've ever liked anything good you'll also like this album. It's like Sleep, Heart, Hendrix, Priest, and Sabbath simultaneously giving birth to each other's babies for 30-some-odd minutes.Lady-vocals are for winners. If you can't handle female-fronted bands you probably also can't handle sexual intimacy or doing anything else right with your life. Get over it. Do yourself and the band a favor and hop over to their bandcamp before you purchase... just do it. do it. do it. do it. Thanks for listening! This is my first Amazon review but I just couldn't stand their being so little coverage of this great band out there in the mainstream. -WCurtis 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful  Excellent release from a Portland doom band!, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: South of Salem (Audio CD) Don't let the 4 stars instead of 5 discourage you. I think this is a really good album and I listen to it often. It is sludgy, intense, definitely heavy, and definitely enjoyable throughout. My favorite track is (probably) "Hare's Stare" as it displays the band's most inventive material, shifting back and forth easily between two different rhythmic feels. Other songs will also play around with these interesting rhythmic feels, but it never feels forced and absolutely never feels like "math metal." It's always much more natural sounding than that. The song writing is solid, with a pervasive sense of doom and dread throughout. All the songs are pretty slow, nothing resembling speed or thrash metal, no double bass blasting away, for example. Uta Plotkin's lead vocals are clean and effective, very skillful and attractive, and often very rhythmically delivered. She doesn't growl or scream (which is fine), and she can be plenty intense - no shortcomings there. The guitar work is... Read more Great doom metal..., By This review is from: South of Salem (Audio CD) There are so many great 'doom' metal bands out there at the moment, it's great to see. Portland's Witch Mountain have the Sabbath riffs and grooves down pat. What makes them stand out is an absolutely astounding female vocalist who has so much power, passion and soul in her voice it's incredible. It's like if Ann Wilson of Heart was the singer for the golden era early 70s Sabbath instead of Ozzy, she is that good. And yes, as I said, these guys have the Sabbath vibe, the riffs are killer, it grooves, they can jam, it basically just rocks. And it's on Profound Lore, probably the best 'underground' metal label at the moment. Very highly recommended... |
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