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Well, it's a logical progression from the Fastest Band Ever thread. And I doubt the answer's Black Sabbath or Flipper.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fudge Tunnel

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sloth.

Name:sloth

Country:United Kingdom

Description:Heavy, sluggish Doom-metal for fans of Electric Wizard. Keywords would be thick, sludge, psychadelic, crushing, filthy and heavy. Actually it would be heavy 10 times over and then the other keywords!

Discography: 2000: 'The Voice of God' (CD) Eccentric Man / The Music Cartel

Homepages: Official: www.the-sloth.com

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Codiene?

― jel --, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Codeine sounds slower than they actually are. Each beat seems to fall just a fraction later than seems right. Same with Low only they actually are, or were, very slow.

― Curt, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Earth, surely. They didn't even use drums.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sunn o)))

― James Annett, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bluetile Lounge.

I know very little about the band, but I imagine them being in concert and being too lazy to actually stand up, so they all lie down on the floor. :-)

Their two albums are great slowcore stuff (the second album, "Half Cut", is IMO a work of genius, although I can't talk anyone else into liking it!). They sound kinda like the Red House Painters at a slower- than-Low tempo with Cocteau Twins/REM Murmur-era indeciperhable lyrics.

On the other hand, maybe Low is a bit slower. "Born By The Wires" from the "Songs for a Dead Pilot" EP is almost motionless.

― popmusic, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Check out Copey's pick of the month:

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/wsym/

― dan, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

skinny puppy.

― ethan, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slow and done well: Low, Melvins.

― A Nairn, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They didn't even use drums.

On the other hand, playing slow with drums makes a band sound slower still. Listening to Low, I can't help imagining what Mimi would be doing to pass the time between snare taps if she weren't singing.

― Curt, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes, earth and low. i'm not sure you can look further ?

― kieron, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently Bluetile Lounge were excruciating to watch live. My g/f went to school with one of them and saw them live several times. Falling asleep was not uncommon. People brought cushions and pillows to see them.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my vote goes for codeine too. lots of dead air.

― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably not slowest band ever, but Savoy Grand are Pretty. Fucking. Slow.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned

Earth used drums by album number three and on their fourth they even branched out to vocals (a Kiss cover or something)... admittedly very slow all the same

― Sonicred, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, see, never heard the third album. At least not to my knowledge.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Factrix was also Pretty. Fucking. Slow. around the time of Scheintot.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'loads of dead air' about codeine someone said.. then, is 4:33 a slow.. erm, song?

made me also think of a certain song by a band named (something like) ostzonesupperwurfelmachenkrebs.

i recall that listening to it feels a bit like sitting in waiting- room, alone, and for a long time.

― 9, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, wouldn't the fattest band ever *also* be the slowest?... ;-)

― Clarke B., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

esoteric. winter. autodidact. sunn 0))). earth. joe preston's solo ep from when he was in the melvins. thrones. boris!!!

― your null fame, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh wow, that actually sounds *great!* I can't think of any band I'd rather fall asleep listening to than Bluetile Lounge. :-)

― popmusic, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven months pass...

Boris, St. Vitus, Fushitsusha, Melvins (except when they're fast, then they can be very very fast), Earth.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Sunn0))) or Thrones.

Melvins Ozma at 16rpm on Tussin - what Dark Side is to acid

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The Melvins. Half the time you don't even know if your record player is on the right speed, especially on Gluey Porch Treatments.

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Khanate is the slowest band I've ever heard, but I haven't heard enough Sunn O))) that I'm willing to argue the point. Southern Lord gets slower with each experiment.

I know with Khanate that I need a definition here on what is slow and what is without tempo. I'm not convinced they follow any time schemes.

― Shaun McCormack (shaun), Sunday, 9 March 2003 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd have to say that Supergrass seem pretty fucking Down syndromed to me.

― pedro the jagura (pedro the jaguar), Sunday, 9 March 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The Melvins record called "Melvins" (unless you somehow got a copy of it before they had to put a black sticker over the "Lysol" title) and "Charmicarmicat" from EggNog make most of Gluey Porch Treatments sound fleet by comparison. Quite a deluge.

Regarding the amazingly funny comment about Supergrass (whom I actually like), the leader of the band Reynols actually IS Down Syndrome.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)

but Reynols don't play slow.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

dakota suite and savoy grand must be up there in slowness

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The only 3 shows I've ever fallen asleep at and therefore I felt had to be slow: Low, Aerial M and... Amon Tobin.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I have almost no recollection of seeing Amon Tobin except that there was some nice soothing bass.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Corrupted. at least when they bolt the sludgegates and slip into snorecore gear (Llenandose...)

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Musically, the slowest bands ever must be Talk Talk or The Blue Nile. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

talk talk, low, red house painters, dakota suite all good suggestions.

codeine perhaps aren't quite as determinedly snail-paced as the aforementioned...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

the aptly named black heart procession

― j.a.e., Friday, 14 March 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Btw. The Blue Nile is actually a slow band in several ways, not only musically but also possibly the least profilic band ever.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Corrupted. at least when they bolt the sludgegates and slip into snorecore gear (Llenandose...)

That record is great!!

― original bgm, Friday, 14 March 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Sleep, 'Jerusalem'

― dave q, Saturday, 15 March 2003 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Black Tape for a Blue Girl

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

noothgrush
burning witch

― sean marvin (williamtell), Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

hypnotize camp posse/three 6 mafia/dj screw/screwed click

― peckham rye, Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the only bands still in the running are: Thrones, Khanate, Sunn O)) and Earth. It's tough to think of anyone slower. Maybe the heaviness, though, adds a feeling of slowness that isn't really there? Khanate are definitely the "slowest" band I've seen live.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Sunn O))) are so slow they bow to each other every time they hit a new chord, so they're my tip for #1.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 26 December 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, how is Talk Talk slow? It's My Life is far from a slow tempo tune. There are many other examples.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 27 December 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's My Life isn't the slowest Talk Talk song.

― man, Saturday, 27 December 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

1982-86 Talk Talk isn't necessarily slow, but their 1988-92 style (which, I suppose, would also be their current) is.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 December 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Swans, around 1982-86 became very, very slow and relentless.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 28 December 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Spain, especially "Easy lover".

― Jim Janse, Sunday, 28 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

whoever's playing that multiple century long john cage wankery.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

dream syndicate...the first one.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 29 December 2003 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Earth. I think Melvins slowness is the most impressive of any band I've heard. My favorite Melvins moments were the ones where it actually sounded like they recorded regular heavy rock tunes and slowed em down as slow as the machines will let em. Mostly the drums. Not many could thump the skins like ole Dale Crover. He would fit crazy fills in between hi-hats and shit. Crover was to slow what Lombardo was to fast.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Black Boned Angel.
(Campbell Kneale is god)

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Idle Race

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've just ordered two CDs by Monarch! (punctuation in original), and I think they may well be contenders for this thread. One of the discs is a split EP with Elysium, a powerviolence/noisecore act who contribute four songs in six minutes. Monarch! fill the rest of the CD with a single hour-long track. Similarly, their s/t release is a 2CD set with two songs on Disc One and one on Disc Two.

― unperson, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

We talkin tempo here? Or IQ?

― factcheckr, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard many of the records here but I'm almost certain that a slower band than all of these is Bohren & Der Club Of Gore. There really is no slower band.

― frilly, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. I'll have to check them out.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Frilly is quite correct. They are several snail lengths slower than Swans.

― moley, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Slower than the Swans? Man, they sound pretty Bohren.

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― Reatards Unite, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Corrupted
Eyehategod

and a million other shitty sludgecore bands pwn this thread.

― the table is the table, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

eyehategod aren't shitty

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

It took four years to someone to mention Grief?
What's wrong with you people?

Recommended:

http://billtmiller.com/images/griefcum.jpg

Sadly out of print but awesome! I booked the band opening up for Extreme Noise Terror on the band's only US tour to date and that had to have been the biggest speed mismatch ever...

― NYCNative, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently Bluetile Lounge were excruciating to watch live. My g/f went to school with one of them and saw them live several times. Falling asleep was not uncommon. People brought cushions and pillows to see them.

Oh wow, that actually sounds *great!* I can't think of any band I'd rather fall asleep listening to than Bluetile Lounge. :-)

Bluetile Lounge were excruciating live due to the fact that they'd stand there for ten fucking minutes between songs having a bit of a chat & tuning their guitars & stuff.

― badg, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

my xpost was poorly worded-- i actually like eyehategod, too.

MITB also had some verrryyy slooooowww tracks. god i loved MITB back in the day.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

I guess Brian Eno cannot be counted as a band? Early Tangerine Dream can though.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

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