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Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Doom Metal |
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Page online:
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October 18, 2015
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Last update/review:
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September 24, 2018
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The Skull
What we have here is three former members of a seminal metal band
coming together in a new project, and naming the project after a
classic album from said former band.
That band, of course, is
Trouble,
and so this here The Skull takes their name from the classic second
Trouble album.
Indeed, the project had kicked around for a couple years as a Trouble
tribute band of sorts, playing lesser-known Trouble tunes before striking
out with original material on 2014's
For Those Which Are Asleep.
Frankly, this is the perfect direction for this band --
it's not a stale rehash of Trouble, but it's solid underground doom with
Eric Wagner's familiar vocals complementing prime riffing from Matt
Goldsborough (a one-time
Pentagram
member, another soundalike here)
and Lothar Keller, along with the always-reliable ex-Trouble
rhythm section of Ron Holzner and
Jeff 'Oly' Olson, though the latter has recently departed due to his
day job at none other than the awesome Allagash Brewery.
While the original Trouble is soldiering on, this band might be the best
of Chicago doom bands.
Discography
For Those Which Are Asleep
2014
Tee Pee
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- Trapped Inside My Mind
- The Touch of Reality
- Sick of It All
- The Door
- Send Judas Down
- A New Generation
- Till the Sun Turns Black
- For Those Which Are Asleep
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Eric Wagner
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Lothar Keller
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Matt Goldsborough
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Ron Holzner
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Jeff Olson
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2014 Readers' Album
#45
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The Skull
EP
2016
Tee Pee
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- The Longing
- The Skull (Trouble cover)
- Assassin (Live) (Trouble cover)
- Till the Sun Turns Black (Live)
- A New Generation
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Eric Wagner
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Lothar Keller
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Rob Wrong
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Ron Holzner
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Sean Saley
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The Endless Road Turns Dark
2018
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- The Endless Road Turns Dark
- Ravenswood
- Breathing Underwater
- The Longing
- From Myself Depart
- As the Sun Draws Near
- All That Remains (Is True)
- Thy Will Be Done
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Eric Wagner
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Lothar Keller
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Rob Wrong
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Ron Holzner
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Brian Dixon
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