The grungy, Clevo-based doom/sludge/metal outfit Abdullah dropped their second album Graveyard Poetry a while back, and it's one of my favorite MeteorCity releases. On Graveyard Poetry, Abdullah continues to deliver their combination of crushing Sabbathy riffage and soulful, melodic vocals which have garnered some comparisons in the past to Dax Riggs (Acid Bath/Deadboy And The Elephant Men). The riffs and songs are much closer to true doom though, with dark, sludgy blues riffs that remind me of Saint Vitus, Trouble and Spirit Caravan, but then Abdullah throws some interesting elements that I didn't hear on their earlier releases, like some spacey Pink Floyd-esque guitar lines and haunting keyboards that appear every once in awhile, but the big difference here is the influence of (according to their European label) cult traditional heavy metal bands like New Wave Of British Heavy Metallers Diamond Head, Holocaust, and Tank, and cult San Fran old-schoolers Brocas Helm that has now crept into Abdullah's stoner metal on a handful of songs on the album ("Deprogrammed" especially!). On these songs, Abdullah veer from their dark brooding doomrock steez into killer mid-paced, almost thrashin' metal chuggery with killer dual-harmony guitars. I love the mixture of the NWOBHM sound and their grunge-rock influenced doomrock, and this album immediately stood out from the other stuff that was coming out on MeteorCity at the time.