Shrinebuilder – shrinebuilder
[Neurot, 2009]
genre: sludge, post-metal, doom, stoner, metal, psychedelic
Album Review by Sovereign
Shrine means altar, it means temple, so these guys are pretend to be builders of a temple? They construct a fane? Yes they do! It’s a fucking alternative doom metal supergroup featuring Scott “Wino” Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obssessed, Place of Skulls, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand), Scott Kelly (Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Blood & Time), Al Cisneros (Sleep, Om, Asbestosdeath, the Sabians), and Dale Crover (Melvins, Porn, Fantomas, Altamont, Nirvana). They get the idea for the band name; I think so, from an ‘Om’ song title, released as split record with Current 93. What do you expect from this band when you read these names and these bands they use to play? Nothing more than a superfreaking heavy metal act. And this is it! A doomy, dirty and noisy metal. A modern kind of doom and stoner metal. This is the dirtiest version of sludge metal. This is ‘Sleep’ meets ‘Om’ and ‘Melvins’ deal with ‘Neurosis’. Pitchfork wrote “Neurosis + Sleep + Melvins + Wino = Shrinebuilder” and I agree. Shrinebuilder is a brilliant affectation in hypnosis or trance… As long tracks drift into one another, sharing themes and sequence, it’s really easy to mislead into a waking dream. They share the vocal leading and that makes every song totally different. The difference is in the atmosphere and the doom attitude. This mini album is really heavy but at the same time so stoned and melodic; and I think these records bring slow metal in a new dimension. This is a compilation of new sounds bring out from Sleep, Sloth and Spirit Caravan. There is a psychedelic or something like space rock caprice around a desert and stoner rock atmosphere. This project is fresh over a traditional old school music.
Here are some confirmed dates for the band:
Nov 13 /2009 Sonar – Baltimore, MD
Nov 14 /2009 Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL (8 and 11 PM performances)
Nov 15 /2009 Le Poisson Rouge – New York, NY
Nov 16 /2009 Emo’s – Austin, TX – Shrinebuilder w. Sub Oslo
Apr 17 /2010 Roadburn Festival at 013 tilburg NED
The album:
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http://www.neurotrecordings.com/artists/shrinebuilder/index.aspx
http://www.myspace.com/shrinebuildergroup
http://weburnthroughthenight.blogspot.com/
http://www.combatmusicradio.com/returntozero/
tracks:
1.Solar Benediction 08:44
2.Pyramid Of The Moon 07:35
3.Blind for All to See 07:27
4.The Architect 05:56
5.Science of Anger 09:25
Total playing time39:15
Sovereign
