Iron Man - Maryland USA 1970s-style doom metal anniversary

Iron Man - Maryland USA 1970s-style doom metal anniversary

October 31, 1994: Iron Man - The Passage - Hellhound Records

Exceprt from The Metal Archives - Slow, fuzzy, underappreciated - 77% - gasmask_colostomy, August 24th, 2017:

With a classic sound that owes much to the warm, surging riffing of Tony Iommi and Victor Griffin, as well as the deep bass backing of their respective bands, Iron Man rarely resolve to trudge along at forlorn paces, but instead inject a lot of bounce and swagger into their doom metal. Choice cuts such as ‘The Fury’ and ‘Iron Warrior’ include more energetic guitar playing from Al Morris that sometimes verges on stoner rock with its downpicked buzz, contrasting with more oppressive sounds straight from the classic doom book on ‘Harvest of Earth’ and ‘Time of Indecision’. Dan Michalak joins the band for his first album, happily avoiding any copycat vocals and providing drama and focus amongst the low-down grooves. His style is authoritative and has much more of a NWOBHM slant to it that helps give The Passage another dimension to the fuzzy riffing and ‘70s lead guitar freakouts. The focus is certainly the guitar, yet the drums occasionally stand out too, like in the instrumental sections of ‘Iron Warrior’, though Gary Isom always does a good job of letting the riffs speak for themselves.

Iron Man (US) - The Passage LP 1994 (H 0034-2)