Seed of Decades

Sixty Watt Shaman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 5, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 5, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spitfire
• ASIN: B00004WIP2
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,990 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fear Death by Water

2. Seed of Decades

3. Poor Robert Henry

4. Devil in the Details, Pt. 1

5. Devil in the Details, Pt. 2

6. Low Earth Orbit

7. One More Time

8. Roll the Stone

9. Red Colony

10. Rumor Den

11. A Stone's Throw Away

12. Busy Dying

13. New Trip

14. I've Been Down

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Got rock?, May 15, 2002

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Wheelchair Assassin (The Great Concavity) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seed of Decades (Audio CD)

Do you like Clutch? Because if you do, you'll recognize a lot of that band's sound here. Thick, heavy grooves? Check. Gravelly, wailed vocals? Check. Thumping rhythm section? Check. Massive guitar riffs and fuzzy lead work? Well, you get the idea. However, past the Clutch resemblances, there is a lot that makes this album interesting. Joe Selby is an outstanding guitarist who pulls off an enormous array of sounds. Opener "Fear Death By Water" demonstrates the range of his abilities right off the bat, with a combination of monster riffs and addictive slide guitar work. Other, slower tunes see him branching out into acoustic work, with Dan Kerzwick bringing his vocal energy down a notch to match. The band mixes harder tunes with the slower and softer stuff for a while after "Fear Death by Water," until it reaches its peak towards the end with the monstrously heavy "Red Colony" and "Rumor Den." There aren't any truly weak songs on here, and the diversity of the songs keeps "Seed of Decades" from ever getting boring. I look forward to more good things to come from this band.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's only rock-n-roll, but I like it, March 23, 2001

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Nick (Charlottesville, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seed of Decades (Audio CD)

Rarely does a rock band begin its major label career with an album as varied, multi-faceted, and flat-out heavy as "Seed of Decades." Sixty Watt's first CD, "Ultra Electric," was released on indy label Game Two Records and suffers from horrible production and mixing. For people who have followed this band over the years and heard their sound evolve, this is the real debut album for Sixty Watt Shaman.

"Fear Death By Water" features fantastic slide guitar work by Joe Selby, "Poor Robert Henry" invokes the spirit of "No Quarter" era Led Zeppelin to pound the heaviness into you, and "New Trip" will force you to dance and let your body bob to the beat. This is quite possibly the best record of the year 2000.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars About Time, September 29, 2000

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Morgan (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seed of Decades (Audio CD)

After a musically sparse decade, it is great to hear the new one kicked off by this awesome album. 60 watt are equally parts of AC/DC, Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath with a groove all there own. If you have been looking for a rock band to get in to, this is the album to get. By far the best album of 2000. Check out that wicked slide groove on I've Been Down! Awesome!