Doom [EP]

Job for a Cowboy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Metal Blade
• ASIN: B0017R6N0Q
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,813 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2008 reissue of the 2005 album Doom by Job for a Cowboy, a deathcore/death metal band, based in Glendale, Arizona that formed in 2004. They started as a deathcore group, but have evolved into a predominantly death metal sound. Doom is the second EP released by Job for a Cowboy through King of the Monsters after a self-financed Demo. It was only noticed after being re-released on the major record label, Metal Blade Records. The band has amassed millions of profile views, and YouTube, where a fan cleverly mashed up their song, 'Knee Deep' with clips from SpongeBob SquarePants.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Job For A Cowboy - Doom, September 18, 2008

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Augustus - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doom (Audio CD)

I am a really big fan of metal in the extreme metal genres, and earlier this year I bought the "Genesis" album by Job For A Cowboy. It hit me right on spot. I love it, so I thought, as the collector and die-hard metal fan I am, I have to have this bands EP too. Now I must say that "Doom" by JFAC is an amazing piece of work. The EP is even more raw and crazy than their full-length album. The sound and aggression is devastating and the intro on the cd is so sick and brutal that you can actually scare people by playing it. I love this band and would really recommend anybody who is into death metal, deathcore, metalcore, black metal or any other extreme genre to check this band out. In my opinion you will not be disappointed.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kickass, September 22, 2008

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Cooper Lauck "GRILLMASTER+" (Desert, Wyoming) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doom (Audio CD)

This is some of the best deathcore iv'e heard. The whole thing is just amazing. If you like Genesis you will love this.. I think it is way better than genesis. I think this cause Jonny's voice goes from low growls to pig squeals to high pitched screams. On genesis he doesn't even do any pig squeals, it's pretty gay. Buy it if you like Carnifex, Misericordiam, Whitechapel... You'll love this

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best grindcore debuts of late, June 19, 2011

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A. Stutheit "Teyad" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doom (Audio CD)

Arizona's Job For A Cowboy are easily one of extreme music's most popular new groups. And t he heck of it is that things have always been this way. See, they formed as teenagers (frontman Johnny Davy was only fifteen at the time), and through the use of Myspace, tireless touring, word-of-mouth buzz, and the increasingly widespread deathcore trend, quickly developed a sizeable underground cult following. They were even the proud makes of a releas which not only debuted in the top 100 of sales, but the top 10 (it took Soundscan's number 9 slot)!. But whereas their first full-length effort, 2007's "Genesis," was mostly full-on death metal, Their debut, 2006's "Doom" E.P., mixes in equal amounts of grindcore, deathcore, metalcore, and hardcore. Some hardcore punk, crust, deathcore, goregrind, and math metal elements are included, here, as well.

"Catharsis For The Buried" isn't an unusual way to begin an album; but its foreboding orchestral voices make it nonetheless pretty cool. This slams into the brutal "Entombment Of A Machine," which evokes a mish-mash of The Red Chord, The Acacia Strain, Dying Fetus, Aborted, and Nasum. It is (at times) an all-out cacophony of rapid-fire blast beats, chunky guitars, Meshuggah-ish lurching rhythms, and raw, jarring, and nightmarish vocals -- including goregrind-esque pig-squeals -- that pin your ears all the way back. "Relinquished" and the untitled closing track are two other death-grind assaults that explode with mind-boggling drumming (i.e. jackhammer-fast double-time pummel), buzzsaw guitar shredding, and smart, stop-on-a-dime timing. Elsewhere, after a brief restrained intro, "Knee Deep" transforms into a deluge of thundering guitars matched by breakneck, stop-and-go grindcore blasts, and grumbling, filthy-sounding bass throbs. The possible highpoint, "The Rising Tide," has evil, Pig Destroyer-worthy pig squeals complemented by tons of ridiculous drumming. An excellent, thirteen-second long drum solo also sprouts up around 3: 10 in. (Trust me when I say this, folks: This drum solo is one for t he books.) Finally, the choruses in "Suspended By The Throat" stand out because they seem almost (dare I say?) slower (or at least mid-tempo) by comparison to the rest of the song. Otherwise, ferocious tempos, visceral vocals, and great drumming -- skull-crushing blasts, impressive gravity beats, exceptionally dexterous cymbal crashes, etc -- are what run rampant, here.

In conclusion, "Doom" might be done playing in less than a half-hour's time, but it is most certainly is a friggin' monster! This is not only one of death-grind's best and most promising debuts of the new millennium; but it also would not be much of an overstatement to say that It, to date, ranks near the top of heavy metal short-players that have ever seen the light of day.