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Starting in 1989 and taking its name from the Crowbar group in NOLA ( New Orleans ), Kirk Windstein went on to pioneer slow and heavy music with a unique vocal style. Their first album, " Obedience Through Suffering " was released in 1991, but failed to achieve notoriety. By 1993's self-titled (Crowbar) album, personal friend Phil Anselmo ( Pantera , Down , and Superjoint Ritual ) produced the record, which eventually led to national promotion on MTV's Headbanger's Ball . Phil sang back up on a few tracks and sang background on "Broken Glass" which rounded out the metal anthems "All I Had (I Gave)," "I Have Failed" and "Existence is Punishment" along with a new take on the Led Zeppelin song "No Quarter." Following their success the band went on to record music videos, major tours with Pantera, and more albums. Their band stage antics became infamous, which led to being immoralized in the Pantera "Home Video 3" and Crowbar's "Like Broken" Home Video.

As time moved on the band lost its founding members with the exception on vocal and guitarist Kirk Windstein . After Todd Strange left the band, the trademark 300 pound + band members slimmed down and the heaviness was only in the music and not the band members. The band continues to perform, borrowing members from NOLA metal bands like Goatwhore and Acid Bath . In their recent 2005 release, "Life's Blood For The Downtrodden" Pantera bassist Rex Brown lent his bass duties and keyboard playing and Down's producer Warren Riker assisted in production.


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TRIVIA

  • The videos for "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence is Punishment" appeared on Beavis And Butthead . Butthead commented that Kirk Windstein's face looked like he was sitting on the toilet.

  • The band was notorious for redifining the word "heavy" in a different sense: During Sexy T's and Jimmy Bower's time in the band, the mass weight of the band members was well over 800 pounds (close to half a ton).



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Music videos

  • 1993 Crowbar - "All I Had (I Gave)"

  • 1993 Crowbar - "Existence Is Punishment"

  • 1995 Crowbar - "Like Broken" (Full Length Home Video)

  • 1995 Crowbar - "The Only Factor"

  • 1996 Crowbar - "Broken Glass"

  • 2005 Crowbar - "Dead Sun"

  • 2005 Crowbar - "Lasting Dose"

  • 2005 Crowbar - "Slave No More" (Filmed in Miami, Florida on June 21, 2005 and directed by John-Martin Vogel)



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