Mount Carmel

Columbus, Ohio's Mount Carmel pound out extensive, riff-heavy jams that draw substantially from the blues-based rock of <a href="spotify:artist:74oJ4qxwOZvX6oSsu1DGnw">Cream</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4PI5IHRvANLL76O5gRmGKL">Blue Cheer</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ">Black Sabbath</a>. As a tight power trio with feet firmly rooted in the past, it seemed like a stretch when the bandmembers announced they would pair with a label built on the modern "shitgaze" phenomenon of slack lo-fi artists like <a href="spotify:artist:0oFIPnarjYKDTVgNQU0bbo">Times New Viking</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6lHbTVsBgB6KHcXg24dmWY">Psychedelic Horseshit</a>. Yet Matthew Reed, <a href="spotify:artist:7FwVBMtbkLd4OSM46gpcDW">Patrick Reed</a>, and Kevin Skubak signed to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Siltbreeze%22">Siltbreeze</a> for the self-titled Mount Carmel album in 2010, and stayed with their hometown label for the 2012 follow-up, Real Women. The band eventually moved to label Alive Naturalsound, where they released their third album, Get Pure, in 2014. ~ Jason Lymangrover