http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13992&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fmusic-videos.rssJoe Preston first came to the attention of music fans as a member of the Melvins, playing bass on <i>Lysol</i> and the Kiss-themed <i>Joe Preston</i>, both released in 1992. After leaving the Melvins, the Seattle native launched Thrones, his one-man double-necked bass band. Mixing in samples, tape loops and atmospheric noises, Preston puts both the bass and his voice through a wall of effects and plays trudgingly-paced doom metal along to a drum machine. Affecting his voice to sound at times like a chorus of angels and at others like a depressed grizzly bear, Preston makes music that, while structured fairly traditionally, is beyond weird. The heavy use of delay makes funeral marches and crushing stoner metal passages take on a psychedelic trance quality. In other songs, majestic explosions of heavenly robots shake off the murk in a sunburst marriage of noise-metal power and, um, opera (no, really! See "Obolus" on <i>Sperm Whale</i>). Thrones have released a pair of full-lengths (<i>Alraune</i> in 1996 and <i>Sperm Whale</i> in 2000), several seven-inches and EPs, and have appeared on a bunch of Kill Rock Stars comps. - Mike McGuirkDoom Metalen720Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:24:00 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.13992&rws=%2Fthethrones%2Fmusic-videos.rss Joe Preston first came to the attention of music fans as a member of the Melvins, playing bass on <i>Lysol</i> and the Kiss-themed <i>Joe Preston</i>, both released in 1992. After leaving the Melvins, the Seattle native launched Thrones, his one-man double-necked bass band. Mixing in samples, tape loops and atmospheric noises, Preston puts both the bass and his voice through a wall of effects and plays trudgingly-paced doom metal along to a drum machine. Affecting his voice to sound at times like a chorus of angels and at others like a depressed grizzly bear, Preston makes music that, while structured fairly traditionally, is beyond weird. The heavy use of delay makes funeral marches and crushing stoner metal passages take on a psychedelic trance quality. In other songs, majestic explosions of heavenly robots shake off the murk in a sunburst marriage of noise-metal power and, um, opera (no, really! See "Obolus" on <i>Sperm Whale</i>). Thrones have released a pair of full-lengths (<i>Alraune</i> in 1996 and <i>Sperm Whale</i> in 2000), several seven-inches and EPs, and have appeared on a bunch of Kill Rock Stars comps. - Mike McGuirk