ckut top 20 LOUD 2008
don cabarello - punkgasm - relapse
menace ruine - cult of ruins - alien8 CC
grails - doomsdayer holiday - temporary residence
earth - the bee made honey in the lion’s skull - southern lord
the melvins - nude with boots - ipecac
om - pilgrimage - southern lord
lustmord - other - hydra head
thisquietarmy - blackhaunter - elevation CC
moha - one way ticket to candyland - rune grammofon
sunn - domkirke - southern lord
burning witch - crippled lucifer - southern lord
harvey milk - the best game in town - hydra head
wrath of the weak - alogon - profound lore
conifer/ocean - split lp - important
venomous concept - poisoned apple - century media
black ships - omens - new romance for kids CC
ascend - ample fire within - southern lord
5ive - hesperus - tortuga
discord of a forgotten sketch - improv session - new romance for kids CC
russian circles - station - suicide squeeze
Showing posts with label low. Show all posts
Showing posts with label low. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
BLACK SHIPS / DECIBEL MAG
check out this glowing review of Black Ships' Low EP in decibel.
Black Ships
Low
New Romance For Kids
Come sail away
No one wants to reinvent the wheel and, really, why should they? Throw some killer rims on those things and watch the cavemen shit their saber-tooth drawers. And Low by Montréal’s Black Ships are 20-inchers with spinning pot leaves that shoot fire.
Working the same punk/rock/metal blitz of bands like Coliseum and Trap Them, this four-song EP does everything right by starting pissed and staying pissed, hurling riffs like bricks and cursing everything around them. It’s true that this could be said for a whole mess of bands right now—some D-beating, a few slabs of anthemic breakdowns, some thorny melodies and shredded vocals—but Black Ships raise the bar. The gnawed tongue aggression against the splintered and sorrowful hooks is like chewing on the best tasting tinfoil you’ve ever had.
I’ve admittedly been getting tired of the old-but-new-school metal/punk hybrids, and I think far too many bands are jumping on this particular wagon, but if Black Ships keep putting out records like Low, and other bands follow suit, I’ll happily keep listening. So yeah, go buy the record. And send us photos of your rims.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Press (Black Ships) // Bang Bang / Montreal Mirror / Exclaim (UPDATED)
Black Ships (Updated * new)
Low
By Sam Sutherland
After a well-received CD-R release on Mon Oeil Records, Montreal’s Black Ships have unleashed a beast of an EP on the world with Low. With all the power of Tragedy’s first record or Coliseum’s Goddamage, these four songs meld brutally heavy d-beat with epically apocalyptic guitars, forging some powerfully melodic instrumental passages for vocalist Jamie Thomas to tear to shreds with his appropriately brutal screams. Finding some range in what can be a somewhat limited sonic scope, Black Ships move seamlessly from lightning-fast punk rock to sludgy metal in songs like “Lowest of the Low,” likely the strongest track here. Fans of Cursed or the aforementioned bands should flip for this. (New Romance For Kids)
Black Ships
LOW
MIRROR
by JOHNSON CUMMINS
The last release from Montreal’s brutal blasters the Black Ships, in 2006, had me running around waking the neighbours and kissing babies, but with only six songs on the EP, I was hardly satiated. If you weren’t nimble enough to pick up this slab of heaviness at the time, don’t bother trying to find it now, it’s long out of print. This week, these crusty hardcore hellions release the follow-up Low in less limited quantities, but further the frustration with only four songs this time around. In this case, though, size doesn’t matter. They destroy on all glorious 16 minutes here. Lovingly put out by local label New Romance for Kids, the Black Ships’ Refused/Entombed onslaught is out for blood. If you dig brutal hardcore or metal that isn’t afraid to fire from the gut, this is essential listening. If you weren’t hip enough to catch their record release a couple of weeks back, keep your peepers here for their upcoming show at new hotspot Black Dot.
Bang Bang
11 avril 2008
Black Ships : Low
Alexis Charlebois-Laurin
New Romance For Kids
Ayant déjà la réputation d’être un des groupes les plus loud en show de toute la scène punk/hardcore de Montréal, le groupe nous envoie son premier EP «officiel» après un CD-R sur le label Mon Œil. Un EP qui va certainement entretenir la rumeur. Se situant dans la lignée de Tragedy, From Ashes Rise, Cobra Noir, The Black Hand, la formation nous sert un bon d-beat rock et bien sale avec une touche de mélodie bien placée. En seulement quatre chansons, le groupe réussit vraiment à nous prouver de quoi il est capable et on a hâte d’entendre la suite. J’espère qu’elle ne se fera pas trop attendre et qu’il va battre le fer pendant qu’il est chaud. Je suis pas trop certain mais j’ai comme une grosse impression que ce groupe est composé d’ex-plein d’affaires parce que dans le style, c’est vraiment très bon et bien exécuté. La voie caverneuse fitte à merveille, les guitares mélodiques, tout en étant sales et pesantes, ne pourrait mieux sonner et chaque coup de drum s’abat comme un coup de hache. «The lowest of the low, the cursed of the cursed, the darkest of the darkest night.» C’est-tu pas assez d-beat à votre goût comme paroles ça, mes amis? Moi j’ai adoré. (ACL)
www.myspace.com/blackships
Low
By Sam Sutherland
After a well-received CD-R release on Mon Oeil Records, Montreal’s Black Ships have unleashed a beast of an EP on the world with Low. With all the power of Tragedy’s first record or Coliseum’s Goddamage, these four songs meld brutally heavy d-beat with epically apocalyptic guitars, forging some powerfully melodic instrumental passages for vocalist Jamie Thomas to tear to shreds with his appropriately brutal screams. Finding some range in what can be a somewhat limited sonic scope, Black Ships move seamlessly from lightning-fast punk rock to sludgy metal in songs like “Lowest of the Low,” likely the strongest track here. Fans of Cursed or the aforementioned bands should flip for this. (New Romance For Kids)
Black Ships
LOW
MIRROR
by JOHNSON CUMMINS
The last release from Montreal’s brutal blasters the Black Ships, in 2006, had me running around waking the neighbours and kissing babies, but with only six songs on the EP, I was hardly satiated. If you weren’t nimble enough to pick up this slab of heaviness at the time, don’t bother trying to find it now, it’s long out of print. This week, these crusty hardcore hellions release the follow-up Low in less limited quantities, but further the frustration with only four songs this time around. In this case, though, size doesn’t matter. They destroy on all glorious 16 minutes here. Lovingly put out by local label New Romance for Kids, the Black Ships’ Refused/Entombed onslaught is out for blood. If you dig brutal hardcore or metal that isn’t afraid to fire from the gut, this is essential listening. If you weren’t hip enough to catch their record release a couple of weeks back, keep your peepers here for their upcoming show at new hotspot Black Dot.
Bang Bang
11 avril 2008
Black Ships : Low
Alexis Charlebois-Laurin
New Romance For Kids
Ayant déjà la réputation d’être un des groupes les plus loud en show de toute la scène punk/hardcore de Montréal, le groupe nous envoie son premier EP «officiel» après un CD-R sur le label Mon Œil. Un EP qui va certainement entretenir la rumeur. Se situant dans la lignée de Tragedy, From Ashes Rise, Cobra Noir, The Black Hand, la formation nous sert un bon d-beat rock et bien sale avec une touche de mélodie bien placée. En seulement quatre chansons, le groupe réussit vraiment à nous prouver de quoi il est capable et on a hâte d’entendre la suite. J’espère qu’elle ne se fera pas trop attendre et qu’il va battre le fer pendant qu’il est chaud. Je suis pas trop certain mais j’ai comme une grosse impression que ce groupe est composé d’ex-plein d’affaires parce que dans le style, c’est vraiment très bon et bien exécuté. La voie caverneuse fitte à merveille, les guitares mélodiques, tout en étant sales et pesantes, ne pourrait mieux sonner et chaque coup de drum s’abat comme un coup de hache. «The lowest of the low, the cursed of the cursed, the darkest of the darkest night.» C’est-tu pas assez d-beat à votre goût comme paroles ça, mes amis? Moi j’ai adoré. (ACL)
www.myspace.com/blackships
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