Artist: Acrimony
Genre(s):
Metal: Doom
Metal
Discography:
Tumuli Shroomaroom
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Hymns to the stone
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Formed in Cymru in 1991, Acrimony included vocalizer Dorian Walters, guitarists Gilbert Charles Stuart John Henry O'Hara and Richard Henry Lee Davies, bassist Paul 'Mead' Bidmead, and drummer Darren Ivey. Exponents of typical mid-'90s stoner gospel According to John Rock, they combined Black Sabbath's heavy metallic element riffery, Hawkwind's blank gem excursions, and Blue air Cheer's fuzzed-out psychedelic feedback with extremum doses of bulk, and were peculiarly remindful of abandon alloy gods Kyuss. After circulating a few demo tapes, the band signed with fencesitter Godhead Records for their debut record book album, 1994's Hymns to the Stone, and its follow-up E.P., 1995's The Back breaker Elephant. Pickings it to the succeeding point, they then joined lead doom target Peaceville, and proceeded to record their shaver masterpiece, 1996's critically acclaimed Tumuli Shroomaroom, which punctually earned a perfective tense quintuplet "K's" from Brits metal book Kerrrang! magazine publisher. Record album gross revenue were unsatisfying, however, and Bitterness shortly became shocked by the label's lack of support and distinct to dissolve at the destruction of 1997. Rumors at one time in a patch had them reuniting towards the close of the '90s, just nil always came of them.
Mychael Danna and A. R. Rahman
