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The Mighty Nimbus: The Mighty Nimbus Sludge Metal Threeman Recordings October 25h, 2004
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Review
One of the most overlooked band names in the sludge and doom metal scenes would be the name The Mighty Nimbus. As to why this happened, it's unclear, but the band's self-titled debut full length album is far from anything that should ever be overlooked, especially with the present state of metal and the lack of anything original or solid coming out from labels, even those established as the producer of fine works of chaotic audible art. The Mighty Nimbus presents a very heavy and eclectic sound from the early days of hard rock. Just about everything on The Mighty Nimbus is great. Right from the start with the more fast paced "Everything I see", you'll notice some stand out elements to this band. The guitars have a very low, somewhat static sound to them, which really helps pull the music on the album together, making it just sound tighter as a whole with it's rough, yet clearly modern, production quality. But, yes, all of that is expected from a band of this style. What really stands out is just how heavy the music sounds in the end, the harmonized rough vocals, and the band's ability to vary between metal and rock. Take "Impose My Will" and "Sacrament Of The Sick" for instance. "Impose My Will" is a very slow paced track with some very deep early hard rock roots mixed in with it, as well as harmonized rough vocals, whereas "Sacrament Of The Sick" is a much slower track with guitars that sound much heavier with borderline gutteral vocals. While the quicker paced songs, like "Everything I See" and "Broken Hoof" really stand out on the album, it's some of the more traditional, slower paced tracks that will really catch your eye. "Drinkin' On A Pile Of Skulls" is really where the music starts to become more of a serious, menacing album, even though the lyrics to that track are a little more fun the music would let on, and "Raising The Mammoth" starts off somewhat faster, but it drops down into more of a psychadelic sounding song with vocal distortions and some very groove-like guitar riffs. This leaves the album closing with each song being slower then the last, and a bonus cover song being the climax track. "Born Too Late", originally performed by Saint Vitus, isn't that bad a song, sounding like a much slower "Sacrament Of The Sick" but featuring Jörgen Sandström on vocals, but has a lesser production quality, and may be a bit too over-the-top for some people. So, with the exception of interlude track "Fenrir" that doesn't really serve much of a purpose and isn't all that great to begin with, and the bonus track "Born Too Late" not being anything that spectacular, The Mighty Nimbus bring us a sludge album that really stands out amongst other albums in this style. While some of the album isn't all the original, it's the parts that are, as well as some small touches like having songs that are hard rock influenced and border metal, and vice versa, and the use of both harmonized rhaspy singing vocals, as well as gutteral, that really make The Mighty Nimbus a must own album for fans of this style.
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