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- Artist(s): Kirk Windstein, Matt Brunson, Pat Bruders, Tommy Buckley
- Summary: The sludge metal band from New Orleans releases its first album in six years.
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- Record Label: Entertainment One Music
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Sludge Metal
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Alternative PressApr 12, 2011With brief nods to Black Sabbath and slower Slayer, Sever rolls 40 years of metal and hard rock into a big joint and smokes it all. [Mar 2011, p.92]
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Mar 23, 2011Crowbar were always more reflective. And that's kind of what Sever The Wicked Hand is all about, corpulent down-tuned riffs and a sense of grizzled resignation articulated through Windstein's taut songwriting and sorrowful croon.
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Kerrang!Apr 5, 2011The band's ninth full-length, is every bit the monster it should be and easily stands alongside their best work. [12 Feb 2011, p.51]
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Mar 23, 2011"I live by my mistakes," exhorts Kirk Windstein on "Isolation (Desperation)," opening dirge on this NOLA quartet's ninth blunt-force trauma.
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Mar 23, 2011What's different about Sever the Wicked Hand, though, is how Windstein has been able to make his band's ninth album sound so fresh while sounding so comfortably familiar at the same time.
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Mar 23, 2011Sever the Wicked Hand [is] one of the strongest efforts of their career.