Crowbar frontman and guitarist Kirk Windstein has announced via social media that the New Orleans sludge metal band will play a free hometown show on July 17 at Southport Music Hall in New Orleans. The concert will be filmed for a future live album release.
The announcement comes at a moment of renewed and expanded visibility for Crowbar, a band nearly four decades into its career. Viral interest — particularly within the bodybuilding community, where Crowbar‘s music has become widely associated with training and powerlifting culture — propelled the band past one million monthly listeners on Spotify in February 2026.
Crowbar was formed in New Orleans in the early 1990s and has remained one of the defining acts in sludge and doom metal, known for a catalog that balances crushing heaviness with raw emotional directness. Windstein has led the band continuously across more than a dozen studio albums.
