1. Crowbar is an America… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists using this name.
1. Crowbar is an American sludge metal band formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1990.
2. Crowbar was a Canadian rock band based in Hamilton, Ontario, best known for their 1971 hit "Oh, What a Feeling".
3. Crowbar was a British punk/oi band active in the 1990s.
4. Crowbar was an electronic band active in the 1990s.
1. Starting in 1989 and taking its name from the Crowbar group in NOLA (New Orleans), Kirk Windstein went on to pioneer slow and heavy music with a unique vocal style. Their first album, Obedience Thru Suffering was released in 1991, but failed to achieve notoriety. By 1993's self-titled Crowbar album, personal friend Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down, and Superjoint Ritual among others) produced the record, which eventually led to national promotion on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. Phil sang back up on a few tracks and sang background on Broken Glass which rounded out the anthems "All I Had (I Gave)," "I Have Failed" and "Existence is Punishment" along with a new take on the Led Zeppelin song "No Quarter." Following their success the band went on to record music videos, major tours with Pantera, and more albums. Their band stage antics became infamous, which led to being immortalized in the Pantera "Home Video 3" and Crowbar's "Like Broken" Home Video.
As time moved on the band lost its founding members with the exception of vocalist/guitarist Kirk Windstein. After Todd Strange left the band, the trademark 300-pound-plus band members slimmed down. The band continues to perform, borrowing members from NOLA metal bands like Goatwhore and Acid Bath. In their recent 2005 release, Lifesblood For The Downtrodden, Pantera bassist Rex Brown lent his bass duties and keyboard playing and Down's producer Warren Riker.
2. From 1969 to 1970, most of the members of the group had been a backup band for Ronnie Hawkins under the name "And Many Others". However, in early 1970, he fired them, saying "You guys are so crazy that you could fuck up a crowbar in three seconds!" They recorded their first album in 1970 (Official Music) as King Biscuit Boy and Crowbar. King Biscuit Boy left the band later in 1970, but continued to appear off-and-on as a guest performer.
Crowbar's rock, blues and boogie mix made it one of Canada's most popular touring bands of the early 1970s. The band toured in the United Kingdom but, otherwise, made little impact outside of Canada.
Crowbar disbanded in 1975, but was revived in 1977; (minus Jozef Chirowski, who had joined Alice Cooper's band) for a tour of eastern Canada with Kelly Jay and others intermittently during the 1980s with club work in southern Ontario.
3. Crowbar was an English Oi band who released the single "Hippie Punks" (backed with a cover of "White Riot") on the Skin Head Records label in the early 1980s. No details of their membership are known.
Four Walls
Crowbar Lyrics
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No one pulls shit when I fall
I'm isolated in a century of despair
Man's love's reflecting my walls are bare
My 4 walls
What a man needs when a man bleeds
Isolated
My life is drugged with sadness
I praise my sleep
It free's me from madness
In solitude my walls are bleeding sorrow
I have no future
No tomorrow
My hate explodes
Only my 4 walls know
There's no pity
Only peeling white snow
Headaches
Heartaches
It only gets worse
Inside my 4 walls
I am cursed
In Crowbar's song Four Walls, the lyrics speak to the feelings of isolation and hopelessness that the singer is experiencing. The lines "I'm isolated in a century of despair, Man's love's reflecting my walls are bare" suggest that the singer feels alone in a world that seems to lack compassion and love. The walls that surround the singer represent both physical and emotional barriers that they cannot seem to escape. The repetition of the phrase "My 4 walls" emphasizes the singer's feeling of being trapped and their dependence on those walls for a sense of security and protection.
As the song progresses, the singer reveals the depths of their despair, using vivid imagery such as "my walls are bleeding sorrow" and "only peeling white snow" to describe their emotional pain. The line "I have no future, No tomorrow" reflects a sense of hopelessness and loss of purpose or direction in life. The singer's hate and anger are also highlighted in the lyrics, as they feel that only their walls know the extent of their suffering and there is no one to turn to for help or understanding.
Overall, Four Walls is a powerful and emotive song that captures the feelings of loneliness and desperation that can arise from a life of isolation and pain.
Line by Line Meaning
I pull the punch when I hit the walls
I hold back my full strength when I try to break through my barriers
No one pulls shit when I fall
No one cares to help me when I am defeated
I'm isolated in a century of despair
I'm alone in a time of great suffering and hopelessness
Man's love's reflecting my walls are bare
The lack of love in my life is mirrored in the emptiness and bleakness of my surroundings
My 4 walls
The only company and refuge I have in my misery
What a man needs when a man bleeds
In times of injury and pain, a man requires a safe haven to heal
Isolated
Completely cut off from society and human connection
I am condemned
I am doomed to suffer in my confinement with no hope of escape
My life is drugged with sadness
My existence is heavily weighed down by deep sorrow and melancholy
I praise my sleep
I find solace in my unconscious state where my mind is freed from pain
It free's me from madness
It relieves me from the insanity of my thoughts
In solitude my walls are bleeding sorrow
Alone in my confinement, my surroundings project my deep feelings of sadness and despair
I have no future
I see no hope or prospects for a better tomorrow
No tomorrow
A complete lack of a future to look forward to
My hate explodes
My feelings of anger and resentment burst out uncontrollably
Only my 4 walls know
Only my confined space is privy to my outbursts and inner turmoil
There's no pity
There is no compassion or empathy for my miserable situation
Only peeling white snow
My only view of the outside world is a drab and deteriorating scene
Headaches
Physical pain in my head from the weight of my problems
Heartaches
Emotional pain from my feelings of despair and loneliness
It only gets worse
My situation and my feelings continue to deteriorate with no hope of improvement
Inside my 4 walls
My little world of confinement and misery
I am cursed
My life is doomed to be full of misery and pain
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: DAVID VINCENT WILLIAMS, DONALD EDMOND ROLLINS, HARRY EDWARD STINSON
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