The band B.C.(Before Christ)
hails from Brooklyn. It's a 4 piece and it's Metal! If this band came
across my eardrums without any previous knowledge of who was playing in
it, first I'd think this is crazy old as hell and secondly I'd fail at
finding anything about the band besides a few youtube clips and a
bandcamp site on the web. Talk about DIY.
I've known the lead guitarist Bill Augustus since college way back in 1993. Bill Augustus is an amazing artist as well as musician. It's an outright shame I haven't reviewed this until now since this did come out last year. I'm a bad friend because this is an amazing EP.
Let's get to the music. It's
killer! The production sweats old school black metal through it's pores.
The guitar riffs plunge, swing out and grab you by the throat. Speaking
of throats, the vocals sound like a Jaguar ripping out the vocal chords
of, well, another jaguar. The drum and bass have this really cool punk
feel and when the quick picking of the guitar kicks in, the songs become
much more than the standard black metal blue print. Between chords
quickly descending into an almost middle eastern rhythm, sparce cutting
vocals and the swinging drums/bass, the track "Drone" seems to my
favorite track so far. But things can change on the two hundredth listen
which I'm sure I'll easily do by the time this gets published.
B.C.'s
music will easily satiate the appetites of doom, punk, death and black
metal fans alike. It's easily one of my favorite listens in quite a long
while. Be sure to hit up their bandcamp site and search youtube for some rare live performances.
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