Sorry for the month long hiatus on this thing. A month ago I moved into our new house in London, and only just got the internet, which is awesome. So for my first post back, a bit of a stock one but nonetheless; (belated) Band of the Week!
DEAD SWANS
Dead Swans are awesome. I have been fucking stuck on them since I saw them supporting Gallows at the Diamond Skulls launch party gig at the Camden Underworld. They used the theme music from John Carpenters Halloween, then, without warning the band and some friends in mexican wrestling masks run on stage, the masked moshers front flipping into the static audience causing a great big old ruckus. The gig was pretty fucking awesome, but as they are still fairly new, the crowd reception left a little to be desired. I look forward to seeing them at a headline gig with a responsive crowd.
Dead Swans play hardcore, but not cliched - verse, chorus, bridge, breakdown, chorus hardcore. Their hardcore brings to mind Refused, a dark Suicidal Tendencies and Converge, but sound completely current and relevent. With double kick drumming being kept to a minimal, and more inventive drumming techniques being thrown out, the structuring of the songs is refreshingly different and non formulaic, but the songs are not dragged out affairs, with most of the songs on their mini album "Southern Blue" not even hitting 2:00 minutes long. Lyrically, they come across as honest and pure, yet poetic and artistic at the same time. But, don't get me wrong, Dead Swans are heavy, infact heavy as fuck, at times, but also melodic and progressive, without resorting to clean vocals as a cheap injection of melody.
Dead Swans should go on to be very successfull, if the future promised by "Southern Blue" is anything to go by.
Their aforementioned mini album "Southern Blue" is available on iTunes (but DRMed, sort it out guys), from thirtydaysofnights store for only £5, and they have plenty of snazzy t-shirts up for grabs too, two of which I have already purchased! Also, check out their MYSPACE for a listen of some of the songs they have available, and to check their tour dates so you can go and grace them with your prescense!
Soon I will be doing some photo posts about our wondeful new house and on some of the disgusting horror movies I have been occupying myself with, while job hunting has turned up nothing for me.
I have been listening to:
Dead Swans - Southern Blue
Your Demise - The Blood Stays On The Blade EP
Fantomas - The Director's Cut
Rolo Tomassi - EP
Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
Skinny Puppy - Rabies
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI
I have been watching -
Alan Partridge
Bucky O'Hare
Ross Kemp on Gangs
Porno Valley
Robot Chicken
Don't Answer The Phone
Lucio Fulci films
The Re-Animator Trilogy
What Dreams May Come
Seecrest OUT!
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