This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
No, not that Crowbar.
This isn’t the ’70s Canadian blues-rock outfit that used to back Ronnie Hawkins and wrote Oh What A Feeling. That is, not unless they moved to Louisiana, shaved about 20 years off, pierced various body parts and became a gloomy sludge-metal outfit somewhere between Type O Negative, Melvins and Pantera on serious barbiturates. Llike their previous five albums, Equilibrium is a deliberate, uncompromising set of primordeal metal, with drums that plod like stomping dinosaurs, guitars that ooze molten magma and a singer who bellows like a mammoth with a migraine trying to free himself from a tar pit — especially on their punishing, slow-death cover of Dream Weaver. Yes, that Dream Weaver — Gary Wright’s cheesy ’70s synth-rock classic, rendered here as a nightmare-inducing slab of swirling, howling menace. What a rush.
