WITHDRAWN WITHIN

About

I’m J. Michael Wall, a Keachi, Louisiana born solo artist making Red Dirt Sludge Metal. under the band name Withdrawn Within.

I’m influenced by artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Wyatt Flores, Turnpike Troubadours, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Treaty Oak Revival, Ole 60, Koe Wetzel, Whiskey Myers, Lowland Revelry, Mac Hankins and The Moonlighters,Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Down, Crowbar, Acid Bath, Eyehategod, Buzzoven, Weedeater, Dixie Witch, Alice in Chains, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Guy Clark, Blaze Foley, John Prine, and others.

The music keeps a focus on slow, crushing sludge-doom riffs, and a southern groove underneath everything. I sing with a country twang, rough around the edges, sometimes it turns into screams. Mostly loud electric guitars, but sometimes banjo, organ, piano, or strings show up, and sometimes it’s just acoustic songs. Heavy when it needs to be, quiet when it doesn’t.