TROUBLE

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: USA
Style: psychedelic stoner heavy metal/rock

the Doom pioneers from Chicago have jumped onto Rick Rubin’s American Recordings next after Slayer did the same with a big bang, although their approach has mellowed down to kind of seventies' haze with a stripped back angle that first might be mistaken for alternative psychedelic hippie rock [couple of laid back songs might imply that], but once you arrive at Memory's Garden and Fear with its razor-sharp guitar tones and muscular, crisp production it starts to make sense by that essential stoner spirit brought into the schemes of pure heavy metal at the time [1992] when too little people cared about such an unusual, sophisticated combination; recent Dutch slipcase edition comes with a sound remaster