Icicles in your veins. No line encapsulates Crowbar’s ethos quite like the refrain from “Command of Myself” (2000). “Count on me until I die,” Kirk Windstein compels us with grim determination. It is the double promise of resolution at the heart of the band: resolve yourself to relying on my hard-won strength and resolve yourself to my inevitable death. In fact, it is only the latter promise that matters; the former remains elusive and permanently forsaken until the very moment the latter is kept. It is precisely in that moment—that moment when two promises collapse into one grave—where and when … Continue reading Count On Me ‘Til I Die: Crowbar’s Zero and Below