On its third studio album and first for Southern Lord, Albini-produced trio from Wilmington, N.C., has a fondness for typical stoner metal subject matter, but they also display an appealing regional sensibility, evinced by a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Gimme Back My Bullets". Weedeater reduce like so: A trio from the seaside city of Wilmington, N.C., the band oozes thick, incidental drones before hammering into belligerent mid-tempo thrash built primarily around metaphors involving, well, weed. More pragmatic than Sleep and more pummeling than Bongzilla, Weedeater are heavy, fluid, and direct. Bassist and frontman "Dixie" Dave Collins howls as if the Read more on Last.fm.
