Concert Review: Stull and Dark Castle at the Replay, Thursday, February 12, 2009

By ANDREW MILLER

“We’re Stull, we’re from Des Moines,” announced guitarist Shawn Carrey, midway through the group’s performance. After pausing a beat, he revealed the band actually hails from Lawrence, and that he knew most of the people in attendance. But when Stull settles into one of its blues-based grooves, anchored by Hank Osterhout’s bow-stroked upright bass, even close friends might get so lost in the entrancingly repetitive doom-metal tunes that they forget their connection to the people playing them.