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
Showing posts with label omens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label omens. Show all posts
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Eye Weekly Holiday Record Guide: Punk/Metal
Eye Weekly diss production butt dig the riffs
BLACK SHIPS ***
Omens / New Romance For Kids
On Omens, Montreal’s beastly and thunderous Black Ships perfectly balance melodic tendencies bastardized by detuned aggression. Uniting Cancer Bats’ modest metallic edge with Cursed’s death-metal-meets-hardcore guttural prowess as well as the apocalyptic slant of High On Fire, Omens is direct and hyperactive, packed with girth and rabid fury. But while their redlining distortion initially creates a strong, haunting atmosphere, by the halfway mark it becomes a tiresome jumble of static detracting from their obvious abilities. When Black Ships step up the production aspects of their hardcore dirge, they may acquire the underground scene’s throne that was abdicated by Cursed. For now, they still have some plotting to do. KC
BLACK SHIPS ***
Omens / New Romance For Kids
On Omens, Montreal’s beastly and thunderous Black Ships perfectly balance melodic tendencies bastardized by detuned aggression. Uniting Cancer Bats’ modest metallic edge with Cursed’s death-metal-meets-hardcore guttural prowess as well as the apocalyptic slant of High On Fire, Omens is direct and hyperactive, packed with girth and rabid fury. But while their redlining distortion initially creates a strong, haunting atmosphere, by the halfway mark it becomes a tiresome jumble of static detracting from their obvious abilities. When Black Ships step up the production aspects of their hardcore dirge, they may acquire the underground scene’s throne that was abdicated by Cursed. For now, they still have some plotting to do. KC
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
