“I thought it was amusing,” Windstein says of the appearance. In the latter clip, the animated teens liken the bald, burly Windstein to a militant assistant football coach before Butt-Head observes of the singer, “He’s having trouble defecating.” Their video for “All I Had (I Gave),” a particularly harsh, memorable single from the self-titled LP, was a staple on the network’s metal showcase Headbanger’s Ball and even turned up on Beavis and Butt-Head. That hard-line approach served Crowbar well in the early Nineties, when they enjoyed a brief moment of MTV visibility. “‘Oh, we can’t do that – it’s too melodic.’ We had kind of intentionally painted ourselves in a corner.” “When Crowbar first started out, I was so concerned with everything being heavy,” he explains. In Crowbar’s early days, Windstein was out for extremity alone, following the lead of bands like Brooklyn’s Carnivore, a rage-fueled hardcore-meets-thrash outfit led by future Type O Negative frontman – and Windstein’s late friend – Peter Steele. The band’s progression to this mature, readily identifiable style has been a gradual one. I’m very proud that the second you hear it, you know it’s Crowbar.” “But to me it’s just heavy, emotional music. “People call it ‘sludge’ – whatever they wanna call it, that’s fine,” Windstein says, discussing the band’s sound in his deep Southern drawl.
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