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God Luck and Good Speed
Weedeater →130,825 listeners1,757,086 plays
stoner metaldoom metalsludgestoner rocksludge metal
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On its third studio album and first for Southern Lord, Albini-produced trio from Wilmington, N.C., has a fondness for typical stoner metal subject matter, but they also display an appealing regional sensibility, evinced by a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Gimme Back My Bullets". Weedeater reduce like so: A trio from the seaside city of Wilmington, N.C., the band oozes thick, incidental drones before hammering into belligerent mid-tempo thrash built primarily around metaphors involving, well, weed. More pragmatic than Sleep and more pummeling than Bongzilla, Weedeater are heavy, fluid, and direct. Bassist and frontman "Dixie" Dave Collins howls as if the bong resin covering his larynx were scraped clean with razorblades soaked in brown whiskey, and guitarist Dave "Shep" Shepherd saturates the space between Collins' meathook bass melodies with ample fuzz. Drummer Keith "Keko" Kirkum eviscerates cymbals with brutal, short-armed slaps. Weedeater traffic in uppers and downers, convictions and addictions: In short, the band lives up to its name, and its third album, the Steve Albini-produced God Luck and Good Speed, puts them near the top of a genre cluttered with bad jokes and stale substances. But Weedeater, like their native region, run the risk of constant oversimplification. Just good stoner metal, right? But aside from their stewed roar, Weedeater's most important elements-- or those that make them more than just another band influenced by Black Sabbath and pot-- extend from the
