Crowbar is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by their extremely slow, low-keyed, heavy and brooding songs that also contain fast hardcore punk passages. Crowbar is considered to be one of the most influential metal bands to come out of the New Orleans metal scene. Kirk Windstein describes Crowbar as "fat music for fat people."Crowbar's debut studio album, Obedience Thru 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. In addition, the videos for "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence is Punishment" were played on Beavis and Butthead. Following this success the band went on to record music videos, embark on major tours with Pantera, and record more albums.Their stage antics, immortalized in the Pantera "Home Video 3" and Crowbar's "Like Broken Glass" home video, became infamous. The band continued recording and touring. In 1994, the Pantera video for the song 'I'm Broken' showed Philip Anselmo wears a Crowbar / Eyehategod t-shirt. Original drummer Craig Nunenmacher left the band in 1996 and was replaced by Jimmy Bower from Down and Eyehategod, and for their 1996 release Anselmo sang back up on a few tracks on "Broken Glass."In 2000, after recording and releasing Equilibrium with Sid Montz on drums, original drummer Craig Nunenmacher rejoined the band, for the "Penchant For Violence Tour" with "the Brotherhood of Brewtality" Black Label Society and Sixty Watt Shaman. Half way through the tour, Nunenmacher replaced BLS's drummer Phil Ondich and pulled double duty for the rest of the tour, eventually joining BLS permanently.The band continues to perform, borrowing members from NOLA metal bands like Goatwhore and Acid Bath. In their recent 2005 release, Lifesblood for the Downtrodden, Pantera bassist Rex Brown lent his bass skills and keyboard playing. Down's producer, Warren Riker, assisted in production.Also in 2005, "Existence" appeared on the Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection #3 DVD.In March 2008 it was announced that their albums — "Crowbar" (1993), "Time Heals Nothing" (1995) and "Live+1" EP (1995) will be reissued in Europe on April 21, 2008 with bonus and multimedia tracks.The band is also known for covering other band's material and putting a heavy spin on it. Crowbar covers Gary Wright's, "Dream Weaver", on their Equilibrium album and Iron Maiden's "Remember Tomorrow" on "Odd Fellows Rest", and Led Zeppelins "No Quarter" on "Crowbar".Kirk also claims that there will be a new album next year and an endless tour as 2009 marks the 20th anniversary for Crowbar.On May 24th, 2009 it was announced that Phil Anselmo's Housecore Records would be re-releasing Crowbar's back catalog.

01 - Waiting in Silence
02 - I Despise
03 - A Breed Apart
04 - Obedience Thru Suffering
05 - Vacuum
06 - Four Walls
07 - Subversion
08 - Feeding Fear
09 - My Agony
10 - The Innocent

01 - High Rate Extinction
02 - All I had (I Gave)
03 - Will that Never Dies
04 - Fixation
05 - No Quarter
06 - Self-Inflicted
07 - Negative Pollution
08 - Existence is Punishment
09 - Holding Nothing
10 - I Have Failed

01 - High Rate Extinction
02 - Self-Inflicted
03 - Fixation
04 - I Have Failed
05 - All I Had (I Gave)
06 - Numb Sensitive (Studio)

01 - The Only Factor
02 - No More Can We Crawl
03 - Time Heals Nothing
04 - Leave It Behind
05 - Through A Wall Of Tears
06 - Lack Of Tolerance
07 - Still I Reach
08 - Embracing Emptiness
09 - A Perpetual Need
10 - Numb Sensitive

01 - Conquering
02 - Like Broken Glass
03 - (Can't) Turn Away From Dying
04 - Wrath Of Time Be Judgement
05 - Nothing
06 - Burn Your World
07 - I Am Forever
08 - Above, Below And Inbetween
09 - You Know (I'll Live Again)
10 - Reborn Thru Me

01 - Intro
02 - Planets Collide
03 - ...And Suffer as One
04 - 1,000 Year Internal War
05 - To Carry the Load
06 - December's Spawn
07 - Its All in the Gravity
08 - Behind the Black Horizon
09 - New Man Born
10 - Scattered Pieces Lay
11 - Odd Fellows Rest
12 - On Frozen Ground

01 - I Feel The Burning Sun
02 - Equilibrium
03 - Glass Full Of Liquid Pain
04 - Command Of Myself
05 - Down Into The Rotting Earth
06 - To Touch The Hand Of God
07 - Uncovering
08 -Buried Once Again
09 - Things You Can't Understand
10 - Euphoria Minus One
11 - Dream Weaver

01-The Lasting Dose
02-To Build A Mountain
03-Thru The Ashes (I've Watched You Burn)
04-Awakening
05-Repulsive In Its Splendid Beauty
06-Counting Daze
07-In Times Of Sorrow
08-It Pours From Me
09-Suffering Brings Wisdom
10-Failure To Delay Gratification
11-Empty Room

01 - New Dawn
02 - Slave No More
03 - Angels Wings
04 - Coming Down
05 - Fall Back to Zero
06 - Underworld
07 - Dead Sun
08 - Holding Something
09 - Moon
10 - The Violent Reaction
11 – Lifesblood