Nashville’s Across Tundras have been quietly producing albums of postmodern meta-metal for nearly a decade, amassing an impressively large body of work despite a frustrating paucity of critical attention. Revolving around guitarist/vocalist T.G. Olson, Across Tundras dutifully invokes Crazy Horse’s mammoth stoner bucolia and doom metal’s drone-as-incantation practices, but refreshingly injects healthy doses of peace-punk ethics and prelapsarian idealism to its distinctive Badlands boogie. Olson’s voice is a confident snarl, frequently recalling the vaguely ecclesiastical drawls of Michael Gira or David . . .
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