But the main attraction was their frontman, Adam Brooks, a thin and agile guy on vocals and sax – an original addition for a punk/post-punk band – who was climbing everywhere, using at his advantage the small space the store was providing, while taking the best hardcore-punk pauses ever.
He sings right in your face, looking at people right in the eyes, screaming sentences like ‘There’s no freedom of speech in the land of the sheep’, ‘How can I go to heaven if I’m living in hell’ in the song ‘Days of Rage’, which basically has to be one of the most anti-system, anti-capitalist songs I have heard for a long time.
San Francisco record label Black Horizons has released a new cassette compilation of music by artists L’Acephale, Spettro Family, German Army, Micromelancolié, Night Worship, and Head Dress, and all the music was composed in order to be played in time with the films of Ingmar Bergman
Sometimes a tattoo can says a lot, and as I noticed a big ‘Thin Lizzy’ one at the top of the bassist/singer’s right shoulder, I thought that was probably not a coincidence. Their looking-towards-the-70s hard rock was sure showing its clear influences
The shouted and raucous vocals were cutting the haze of the tempestuous guitar-bass, and the result was not that head-banging, rather mechanical. Was it mathcore, post-metal, progressive, experimental?
One thing is sure, they should seduce any drummer and drumming fan, as they put all the emphasis on rhythms and,… what did she say? Syncopation
The guitars were loud and heavy, the vocals alternated between a raucous and a more pop-rock tone, the drumming was hitting hard at each low-tuned metal riff and the four
was wondering till the end if they were a real thing, some electronica version of Mali band Tinariwen, but when the lights went on at the end of the show, I could tell they were just regular white guys,… from Seattle it turned out.
I realized that, like their atmospheric sound, the band is a patchwork of other bands as it is often the case: Kate Hall is an ex-member of Mika Miko, Stephanie Chan played in both Austin bands Finally Punk and The Carrots, guitarist Mark Greshowak
It was an earthshaking hardcore sound, which resonated like a loud and painful agony, a violent number which took the longest time to start up, slowly building up in a sludge-doom instrumentation
Creatures, that’s their name! And with a furious sound carried by the long raucous howls of the singer spitting out some undecipherable lyrics, the five of them were looking like a bestial herd
There was still a lot of mystery in their music quite difficult to describe, like a tangent and inexorable fear, not totally exposed but present nevertheless, moving like a martyr (hey, they have a song called Martyrium of the Hippolyt!) going to the scaffold with determination and pride.
Heartless’ frontman was walking in a more destructive way, like a force of nature in pain determined to destroy and crash the universe. They were hardly stopping between the songs
I am pretty sure any Justin Bieber’s fan would have been terrified to death and would have crawled under the next vinyl bins at Full of Hell’s first riff,… I think you get what I mean.
Alison Chesley’s pedigree is truly impressive: she has a master’s degree in Cello performance from Northwestern University, released two albums (one was produced by Bob Mould) as the rock acoustic duo Verbow, has opened for numerous acts such as Frank Black, Bob Mould, Counting Crows, Live, Morrissey, Liz Phair and Brad
he was very concentrated on his craft all the time, extremely occupied between his constant tape-changing, his vibrating and resonating Moog synth and his sparse guitar playing,
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it was these little breaks that were the most surprising as they seemed to venture into something else than Metal with layered guitars and bass, making me think about some of Mogwai’s tracks,
creating a universe as fuzzy as the sound,
‘It’s weird to play during daylight’
a carefree-exuberant band of festive pirates
fighting some non-existing cold wind of fury
fighting some non-existing wind of fury
metal white noise, scorching into a doom atmosphere
broken electronics and heavy throbbing beats
like a bloody vision of some visceral scream coming from the deepest backyards of the New Orleans
an ’emotionally unavailable mother’ and ‘an abusive alcoholic father’, ‘the only one who beat his ass up’
