So I was at Music Millennium yesterday picking up what can only be called an assortment of music (Heptones, Dead Can Dance, and Captain Beefheart) and ran across a band called PELICAN, which apparently is part of a genre known as “stoner metal”, according to the little card stuck in the CD stacks. I made a mental note to find some of it on the internet when I got home. This led me to a brief exploration into the more general “doom metal” arena, from which spawned (if I may use the that term) my new two musical favorites: “funeral doom” metal and “epic doom” metal. Also, my new favorite album title: “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”. Not surprisingly, some of the doom metal traditionalists disregard these sub-genres as no longer within the fold. But from what I can tell, the funeral doom-ers, particularly, were simply non-plussed by the general lack of doom in the previously available doom-metal options. Interestingly, these are also apparently musical cousins to Noise, which has previously caught my interest here on Norlos.

Man, those heavy metal fans are sure analytical. Oh yeah, and PELICAN pretty much is what you’d expect. It would be hard to go wrong with them if you were looking for a smoke break. Or, you know, some Allman Brothers.