DIRT (REDUX)
by VARIOUS ARTISTS
Compact Disc
MER073
Label: MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS
The latest volume in Magnetic Eye’s Redux Series revisits one of the milestones of the grunge era, in which an array of artists from across the doom and stoner metal underground re-imagine Alice in Chains’ nightmare of drug-seeking impulses and inner darkness, Dirt. Comparisons between grunge and the development of sludgy stoner metal can be traced most clearly to this album, a milestone that cemented the cultural shift from vapid early 90s hair metal into something more raw, grimey and real as the preeminent style of popular heavy music. Dirt Redux features the entirety of the classic album covered and reinvigorated from end-to-end by scene heavyweights and rising stars, including Khemmis, Thou, -(16)-, Howling Giant, Forming the Void, The Otolith (ex-SubRosa) and more. 1. THOU - Them Bones
2. LOW FLYING HAWKS - Dam That River
3. HIGH PRIEST - Rain When I Die
4. KHEMMIS - Down in a Hole
5. THESE BEASTS - Sickman
6. HOWLING GIANT - Rooster
7. FORMING THE VOID - Junkhead
8. SOMNURI - Dirt
9. BACKWOODS PAYBACK - God Smack
10. BLACK ELECTRIC - Iron Gland
11. - (16) - Hate to Feel
12. VOKONIS - Angry Chair
13. THE OTOLITH - Would?
