Gacys Threads & Kill ‘Em Dead Cowboy (Portsmouth) – Irish Tour
Kill ‘em Dead Cowboy are a Metalcore band from Portsmouth UK, formed in late 2008, the band have worked hard since then to get to where they are today. Often likened to bands such as Asking Alexandria, August Burns Red and Atreyu, the band write songs they love to play, and songs their fans enjoy, without fear of not fitting in a particular scene. Their music takes a wide range of influences and offers something for everyone to enjoy.
Really pleased with our latest review for ‘Savour Your Scars’ which featured in Metalhammer Magazine’s May Issue.
Check out the review on the right by clicking it… great confidence booster!
So pleased they totally get our ideas behind the more ambient build up in certain songs and the likes and don’t just ignore it.
Good plug leading up to the tour in July also, so fingers crossed this helps grab the attention of more English folks to make it to the shows with ‘Kill ‘Em Dead Cowboy’.
All thanks to our good friend Mark Leetch at http://www.wakeuphate.com we have a few new shots on his Flickr for everyone to check out the full photo stream here.
GACY’S THREADS…first off, what a truly great name for a group who channel such murderous ferocity and aggression into their music. Hell, what a cool moniker anyway. And when it comes to wedding bands these guys hold a niche market all of their own.
If you happen to be going through a nasty divorce and the usual vaseline, Fairy Liquid, and clamping your hand in the freezer drawer methods just aren’t aren’t budging that heartbreaking Til Death Do Us Part bugger, just bung this earthquaker of an EP into yer Hi-Fi at full volume and the thing will literally drop off in seconds.
Laying down slabs of riffage in line with the early releases of Bay Area bands like Machine head and Skinlab alongside stylings of hardcore metal akin to early Killswitch Engage and now defunct UKHC legends Stampin’ Ground and Iron Monkey. All bands who gave the UK and US underground scenes a royal kick up the arse on their arrival, which is a good sign. It’s good too see a metal band actually sticking to their 50 caliber cannons and gunning it out the way it’s meant to be. Though that’s not to say Gacy’s aren’t completely devoid of dynamics, the EP is laced with a few darkly mellow intervals and pretty proficient clean vocals between all the gutteral growls and screams UKHC-esque solidarity shout-a-longs.
While Gacy’s aren’t really bringing anything overly fresh to the table and therefore probably won’t have the steel-toecap in the tush impact those bands that appear to have influenced them did, there always has been and always will be a strong and loyal following for their brand of straight up no messing metal. And besides, new research from the University of Florida has indicated that eating too much fresh fruit can produce negative effects on the body, as the fresher the fruit the more sugar it contains. So clearly fresher isn’t always better and as the Death Metal band Carcass once said sometimes it’s best to just to stay rotten to the gore. That way you can be assured more people will pick up the stench and probably kick up a fuss. Incidentally, Death Metal originated in Florida, but that’s neither here nor there. Yeah.
Anyway, getting back to Gacy’s Threads…what we have here is a four-tracker which on first spin for some reason didn’t really grip me at all. Second time round though it started digging its claws in ripping and my face off. Probably something to do with the difference between weakling laptop speakers and 120 watt hi-fi daddios, justice is only served when this band is cranked up full welt. And on that matter production here doesn’t suffer at all even at the extreme top end, it gets a little dirtier but it suits their sound. To put it very briefly these guys were the perfect little bros and follow up act to Burnt By The Sun’s latest effort, Heart of Darkness which I had been spinning just before burning the Gacy’s mp3 tracks to disc and playing ‘em LOUD. That strictly speaking made them the headliners of my hi-fi that night, that ain’t much but I reckon they could go on to headline much greater auditoriums than my room if they just keep doing what they do.
If you would like to book Gacy’s Threads for your divorce ceremony get in touch with the band via their website below.
We’re looking really forward this one, as we really wanted to catch these guys on the ‘Never Say Die Tour‘, but now we get to share a stage with them, excellent.
