Floor
2002
No Idea!
I'm not sure what my attraction is to one word-named bands, but I sure find myself running into and enjoying them a lot. This is one of my newer finds while on my never-ending quest to discover creative and innovative music. Seeing as I enjoy doom metal and wish to get more and more involved with the genre, I've been attempting to seek out the best bands of it, for hours, looking for the perfect band to fall in love with. Suffice to say, I hit the darned jackpot.
You may or may not have heard of Floor before; they're a quasi-obscure band that's remained relatively on the down-low and stuck more to the underground doom scene, but have sparked some attention with their songs being on YouTube. They were formed way back in 1992 but for reasons, the main one being that the band only appeared on splits for the first ten years of their activity, they didn't release their debut until 2002. The experience that Floor has had really translates well with their music, seeing as they've bared witness to the rise of many of doom's greatest. Even with this though, Floor is one of the most unique bands I've heard in awhile, and that's always a joy for me.
Floor's debut is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. clocking in at a short but sweet 32 minutes, the structure of Floor is a bit different from other doom bands. The slower, sludgier doom metal bands always seem to have an element of jam in their music, extending songs to 8 minutes, 12 minutes, or even longer. Floor takes the form along the shorter lines, with no tracks broaching 3 and a half minutes. This is actually believe it or not a great pro for Floor's album- the quality of each individual track is condensed in powerful, emotional tracks that come and go with ease.
Now what makes Floor so unique? It's undoubtedly an interesting album. The drumming and overall composition is flourishing and complex at times, and vulgar and relentless at others. Steve Brooks and Anthony Vialon's guitars can switch between a traditional pound, to throbbing and doom-y, to downright hardcore punk. This punk vibe is helped by vocalist Brooks, whose tenor yelling-style translates well into the music, much like A. Jay Popoff's does with Lit.
An album that truly has no low moments. This is nothing short of a masterpiece of doom metal music. I recommend it to any fans of doom metal, anyone who's looking for some special stuff from the metal scene, or those sat frozen in a state of perpetual boredom. This outta cheer you up.
You may or may not have heard of Floor before; they're a quasi-obscure band that's remained relatively on the down-low and stuck more to the underground doom scene, but have sparked some attention with their songs being on YouTube. They were formed way back in 1992 but for reasons, the main one being that the band only appeared on splits for the first ten years of their activity, they didn't release their debut until 2002. The experience that Floor has had really translates well with their music, seeing as they've bared witness to the rise of many of doom's greatest. Even with this though, Floor is one of the most unique bands I've heard in awhile, and that's always a joy for me.
Floor's debut is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. clocking in at a short but sweet 32 minutes, the structure of Floor is a bit different from other doom bands. The slower, sludgier doom metal bands always seem to have an element of jam in their music, extending songs to 8 minutes, 12 minutes, or even longer. Floor takes the form along the shorter lines, with no tracks broaching 3 and a half minutes. This is actually believe it or not a great pro for Floor's album- the quality of each individual track is condensed in powerful, emotional tracks that come and go with ease.
Now what makes Floor so unique? It's undoubtedly an interesting album. The drumming and overall composition is flourishing and complex at times, and vulgar and relentless at others. Steve Brooks and Anthony Vialon's guitars can switch between a traditional pound, to throbbing and doom-y, to downright hardcore punk. This punk vibe is helped by vocalist Brooks, whose tenor yelling-style translates well into the music, much like A. Jay Popoff's does with Lit.
An album that truly has no low moments. This is nothing short of a masterpiece of doom metal music. I recommend it to any fans of doom metal, anyone who's looking for some special stuff from the metal scene, or those sat frozen in a state of perpetual boredom. This outta cheer you up.
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Originally written for Metal Music Archives on 9/7/2016.
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