Black Skies: psych/crust/sludge: SO GOOD!

[jrmy]

http://blackskies.bandcamp.com/album/on ... gs-of-time

So I caught literally a song and a half of these guys opening for Pallbearer and they blew me away in that small time. Immediately went back and found their Bandcamp (I woulda bought merch, but they uh... kinda left it on the table and didn't stick around to sell it), and am totally loving the new album On The Wings Of Time.

So amazingly good. Huge riffs, majestic wah breakdowns (without sounding cheesy), excellent little psych bits (flute anyone?), grooving drums and perfectly gruff yet almost melodic(ish) vox. The male singer kind of reminds me of the dude from Coliseum, and the female backing vox add a nice contrast.

I bumped into them later at another bar, and they were totally sweet folks - the bass player apologized for not sticking around. I was talking about them the next day, and someone said "Yeah, they're the nicest anarchists I've ever met."

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Michelle. Thats all I have to say about that.



Oh also you havent seen black skies unless youve seen them playing open mic night with a bunch of fratguy acoustic bands and my bro pushing two soldano slo stacks with a travis bean and youre LITERALLY the only person there because the bar is in the other room and thats where the date rape is going down and the sound guy doesnt even bother to stick around past the first song.




AND ALSO MICHELLE.

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DID I MENTION MICHELLE?

[jrmy]

Dude, Michelle was awesome. Also, one of the nicest peeps ever.

When I told them that I wanted to buy their merch, but they didn't stick around, she replied "Yeah, we put it out, and then figured that the place was too packed with people there for Pallbearer, so we left." I'm not sure if they ever went back to get the stuff they put out on the table.