OFF/(HW): Acrimony

[Alun Hughes]

>>Seem interesting enough. Sound like a cross between Kyuss and Cathedral,
>>maybe with more of a psychey edge.... Hawkwind are mentioned along with
>>Sabbath as primary influences and they have opened for Hawkwind in the
>>past (most recently in London at the Empire on Halloween) - anyone here
>>see them or have their latest album?
>
>Yep, Carl does.
>Someday when I either is very drunk or just feel like a rich man I'll
>buy an Acrimony CD. Right know Fu Manchu's "Action Is a Go" is more
important.
>IMHO Acrimony sounds too much like Kyuss for me to really dig them.
>No own original ideas.
>But maybe they'll get a more distinctive sound in the future - they seem
>to some potential (but they gotta get rid of their singer!)

I've got _Tumuli Shoomaroom_ ... one of those listen-to-it-once, put-it-on-
the-shelf albums. I *wanted* to like it, because it's time we had a successor
to Budgie as Gods of Welsh Metal, but, well, it *is* a bit bland and
unoriginal. It didn't make me think "Kyuss", more "Monster Magnet."

Alun