Crowbar (album)

Crowbar is the second studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on October 12, 1993. It sold 100,000 copies on the now defunct independent label Pavement Music. The singles "All I Had (I Gave)" and "Existence Is Punishment" were played on MTV and received international attention. Crowbar was recorded in New Orleans in 1992 and produced by Phil Anselmo, a childhood friend of Crowbar's founder Kirk Windstein and singer of Pantera.

Crowbar
Studio album by Crowbar
Released	October 12, 1993
Recorded	New Orleans
Genre	Sludge metal
Length	36:12
Label	Pavement Music
Producer	Phil Anselmo
Crowbar chronology
Obedience thru Suffering (1991) Crowbar (1993) Time Heals Nothing (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Crowbar, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Rate Extinction"	2:44
2.	"All I Had (I Gave)"	3:11
3.	"Will That Never Dies"	3:56
4.	"Fixation"	3:46
5.	"No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin cover)	4:30
6.	"Self-Inflicted"	2:45
7.	"Negative Pollution"	3:11
8.	"Existence Is Punishment"	4:29
9.	"Holding Nothing"	3:13
10.	"I Have Failed"	4:22
Total length:		36:12

Personnel

• Kirk Windstein – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Matt Thomas – lead guitar
• Todd Strange – bass
• Craig Nunenmacher – drums

Music videos

• "All I Had (I Gave)"
• "Existence Is Punishment"

Both videos appeared on Beavis and Butt-Head. Butt-Head commented that in "All I Had (I Gave)", vocalist Kirk Windstein looked like he was defecating on the toilet and that the band's music sounded "slow and fat". "Existence Is Punishment" appears on the Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection #3 DVD, originally in "Safe House".

References

1. Jeffries, Vincent. "Crowbar - Crowbar". AllMusic.