Avalanche and Inundation

Tecumseh: Jeremy Long (guitar); John Krausbauer, Ian Hawk (bass instrument); Matt McDowell (percussion); Bob Bellerue (electronics).
Tecumseh has elevated drone metal to an ambient art form, and 2008's AVALANCHE & INUNDATION is a testament to that achievement. Heavy, sludgy, and full of textured dimension, the music of Tecumseh is created with guitar, two basses, percussion, and electronics (note soundscape-enhancing elements such as the presence of electronic hiss). A listening experience that manages to be meditative and pulverizingly heavy at once, AVALANCHE & INUNDATION should appeal to lovers of slow core, stoner metal, and the experimental fringes of ambient and noise-rock.