DOWNLOAD: Dead Meadow - I'm Gone
"If you want me to, I could be with you..."
When we hear "doom rock" we think like... Mordor. Don't you? Like Glenn Danzig and goat horns and churches burning in the mountains of Norway. Dead Meadow, though certainly heavy doomers by name and reputation, are a breed apart. They're beyond good and evil. Beyond the pageantry and the leather pants and the making of mean faces all the time. They've got hair over their faces and glasses anyway. The sun's at their backs. What would be the point?
So yeah, the new Dead Meadow (Old Growth, out 2/5 on Matador) is total stoner doom metal. But it's Sun Also Rises doom. Doomed because, who cares, we're all doomed. Nihilist metal. And, not that this really matters or anything, but goddamn does it sound good.
Now, last time we talked, we called Dead Meadow classic rock. "Sabbath-like." And while we stand by that, upon closer examination, there's an undeniable '90s vibe here. Less a Zeppelin knockoff than a mash-up of early indie rock and construction site radio. It's like CCR got their hands on a bunch of Love As Laughter and Elliott Smith and Xanax. Listen. You'll see.
