Late for Dinner

VINYL FORMAT. Tracks: "Wage War" b/w "Trmph Life." Joe Preston's resume reads like the track listing for the ultimate sludge metal compilation. In the early '90s, he was a member of drone metal pioneers Earth, a band he left to join the Melvins. In more recent times he's recorded with Sunn O))), collaborated with ex-members of Karp in The Whip, and toured with High on Fire. After being on the road with High on Fire for almost two years, he joined Harvey Milk. Thrones is his solo project in the truest sense of the term: for most recordings, Preston is the only performer. Live, Thrones is a towering inferno of doom-metal, with Preston usually helming a double neck bass, a triggered drum machine, and a shelf of pedals by which synths, vocal effects, and multi-tracked guitar/bass lines emit.