3D House Of Beef
Dog (mCD) 2001 mp3.com
Three of the tracks on this release have been released before on 3D House Of Beef's debut album ’Similar Attack Pattern’. The other three (track 3,4 and 6) are unique to this release. The music is pretty much straightforward sludge doom with a pumping pulsation. Although the sound is pumping, it is not really stonerish. Instead it reminds me more of a hardcore/mallcore influence. But this shouldn't scare off any of the sludgers who stand against mainstream music. The music is still much more appealing to a fan of sludge with stoner elements than a nu-metaller. Unlike most sludge, the music on this release is quite accessible and not really that hard to get fond of. On the other hand, they make sure that their music doesn’t get too accessible and thus it doesn't get boring after a while either. And although the album is mid-tempo, it is still impressively heavy. The vocals vary between being growled and non-strained vokills. In addition, and then especially on the last track, there are spoken sections that sound like they have been taken from TV shows and then mixed with distortion and/or echoing. I guess that the best picture of this music can be seen as a dark sewer with the red eyes of vile creatures staring at you from the darkest corners. You can really sense something hateful frowning at you from somewhere. It isn't too hard to point out where it is as the furious red eyes give away its position. Sadly this EP was originally released on mp3.com. Now that mp3.com removed all of it's old content, this EP went with it. Now it's impossible to get hold of.	1. Biffo 2. Abate 3. Heard You Were Dead 4. Live, Coward, Live 5. White Hog Slaughter 6. Thalidomide Approx. 27 minutes
Reviewed by: Arnstein H. Pettersen
Low Cycle (CD) 2001 Lunasound
Doomcore is a word that has only recenly been invented. The term sludge/doom has always covered a lot of the sound of 3D House Of Beef, but there is some bouncy parts of the music that doesn't fit with stoner or doomrock. They are doomy, but yet quite fitting to the core sound. Hence labeling this band as a sludge/doomcore band is probably the most correct of the easy explanations. But terms are usually worthless since ususally people disagree on them or don't know them. To explain this in another way. 3D House Of Beef plays a negative style of music, utilizing raspy guitar riffs that seems to bounce along, like a not so cute and fluffy bunny with blood on it's rather pointy teeth. Another thing that makes an impression on the music is the lyrics that the vo-kills utter. Punk ideology definately has an influence on their political lyrics. They also attack the mindsets of the narrowminded, and the lifestyles of the indifferent. They don't like what they see and express that very clearly. I could compare 3D House Of Beef to bigger names like Crowbar and Eyehategod, and in many ways it would be correct. But fortuenately they also do a lot of their style in their own way. In addition to enjoying the great headbanging time (and neckmuscles) I get from listening to these guys, their originality is what makes this my cup of tea.	1. Burster 2. Triumph Of The Weak 3. Lowendowski Lean 4. Man Made Of Misery 5. Proof Of Concept 6. Crawl 7. Egg Chamber 8. Laughing Outside 9. Seethe 10. Pretender To The Throne 11. (Bonus Track) 12. (Bonus Track 2) 13. (Bonus Track 3) Approx. 45 minutes
Reviewed by: Arnstein H. Pettersen