Shrinebuilder (album)
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Shrinebuilder is the first album by American
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Shrinebuilder
Shrinebuilder is a heavy metal supergroup consisting of various established musicians, particularly of the doom metal subgenre. Their first album, Shrinebuilder, was released in October 2009.-Founding:...

, released in October 2009 on Neurot Recordings.

Track listing

All songs written by Shrinebuilder.
  1. "Solar Benediction" - 8:44
  2. "Pyramid Of The Moon" - 7:35
  3. "Blind For All To See" - 7:27
  4. "The Architect" - 5:56
  5. "Science Of Anger" - 9:25

Personnel

  • Scott "Wino" Weinrich
    Scott Weinrich
    Robert Scott "Wino" Weinrich is a doom metal guitarist and vocalist. Active since 1976, when he started his first band War Horse, Weinrich is best known for being the frontman and guitarist of the doom metal bands The Obsessed and Saint Vitus...

     – vocals on tracks 1, 4 & 5, guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Scott Kelly
    Scott Kelly (musician)
    Scott Michael Kelly is one of three founding members of Oakland, California experimental metal band Neurosis, in which he is a vocalist and guitarist. He has been writing and publishing music since 1985 with Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Blood and Time and his solo acoustic project. He is also...

     – vocals, guitar
  • Al Cisneros
    Al Cisneros
    Al Cisneros |Sleep]], Om, Shrinebuilder, and Asbestosdeath.-Biography:He began his musical career in 1989 by founding a local punk metal band, Asbestosdeath, along with Chris Hakius , Matt Pike and Tom Choi . Cisneros performed bass guitar for the band, and they released two EPs in 1990...

     – vocals on tracks 2 & 5, bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Dale Crover
    Dale Crover
    Dale Crover is an American rock musician. Crover is best known as the drummer for Melvins and Men of Porn, Shrinebuilder, and for a brief time, drummer for Nirvana. He is also guitarist and vocalist for Altamont...

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , backing vocals on tracks 3, 4 & 5
  • Toshi Kasai
    Big Business (band)
    Big Business is a stoner metal/sludge metal band from Seattle who are currently signed to Gold Metal Records.-History:Big Business started as a two piece band composed of Jared Warren of Karp and The Tight Bros From Way Back When, and Coady Willis of Murder City Devils...

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Produced by the Deaf Nephews (Crover & Kasai)

Reception

Crover commented that this was "an experiment that actually worked". Critic Philip Whitehouse described it as "expansive, intriguing and engrossing material from the cream of the doom metal crop."

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