noothgrush

Greg Anderson knows how to throw a festival. He also knows how to fuck up your hearing while setting the (often slow) tempo for metal's sounds to come. "I always thought putting labels on bands was really cheap and somewhat belittling," Anderson waxes enthusiastically from the office of his record label, Southern Lord...

Southern Lord recently released 'Live for Nothing,' a crushing live record documenting one of the more intriguing bands of the '90s powerviolence scene, Northern California's Noothgrush. Clocking in an hour and 20 minutes, 'Live for Nothing' boasts some of the finest doom-ridden sludge compositions you'll hear anywhere...