Graveyard Rodeo

One of the early purveyors of the now well-established NOLA brand of sludgecore (i.e., hardcore meets metal and doom), Graveyard Rodeo recorded a pair of underachieving, and mostly forgotten, early-'90s albums for the Century Media label. In fact, the early-days membership of future Corrosion of Conformity guitarist and singer Pepper Keenan may be the band's only lasting (if tenuous) link with popular music history -- although he had already departed by the time of their 1993 debut, Sowing Discord in the Haunts of Man. Often described as a midtempo variety on the style made su...