Loud top 20 (canada 11/2008)

1 Amon Amarth Twilight Of The Thundergod Metal Blade
2 Misery Index Traitors Relapse
3 Bison BC * Quiet Earth Metal Blade
4 Fiftywatthead * Fogcutter igned By Force
5 Gojira The Way Of All Flesh Prosthetic
6 Burst Lazarus Bird Relapse
7 Fucked Up * The Chemistry Of Common Life Matador
8 All That Remains Overcome Razor & Tie
9 D.O.A. * Northern Avenger Sudden Death
10 Unearth The March Metal Blade
11 Metallica Death Magnetic Warner
12 Metal Church This Present Wasteland SPV
13 Enslaved Vertabrae Nuclear Blast
14 Into Eternity * The Incurable Tragedy Century Media
15 Iced Earth The Crucible Of Man: Something Wicked Part II SPV
16 Toxic Holocaust An Overdose Of Death Relapse
17 Black Ships * Omens New Romance For Kids
18 Cradle Of Filth Godspeed On The Devils Thunder Roadrunner
19 Psycroptic Ob(servant) Nuclear Blast
20 Meshuggah Contradictions Nuclear Blast

Black Ships // Ottawa Xpress - Mtl Hour

December 11th, 2008

Black Ships - Omens
(New Romance For Kids Records)

Dave Jaffer

Live and on recordings, Black Ships songs feel like prospective physical assaults in dark places, with buried vocals that play like words of foreboding and a layered guitar wall that's claustrophobia-inducing and doom-inspiring. However, despite appearances, there's a lot of creativity afoot here. Hard music rarely boasts capital-S style, but Omens is quite stylish. Tempo shifts, like the one transitioning No Eulogy into The Flaws in Self Help, jostle and resituate the listener. Other stylistic aspects of this debut LP set Black Ships apart, but I'll let you find 'em. For now, I'll salute "Montreal's loudest band" with a bra-fucking-vo.