C H R I S T

COUNTRY: CANADA

FFO: EVERYTHING THAT IS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF MY LAST POST

 

so i did the cobra noir post yesterday and while putting that together I found this. this is Patrick fontaine's, guitarist for cobra noir and the black hand, current project. this kind of stuff isn't typically my area so im probably not the best one to review it but I thought id put it up for anyone interested. this is mostly instrumental ambient post rock. some mild doom elements. and I do mean mild. the only thing I can think of to compare it to would maybe be harvestman or neurosis more calm moments or maybe godspeed you! black emperor. again not really my thing but I guess its good as this stuff goes.

bandcamp

L'Oeil du tigre (label)

COBRA NOIR

COUNTRY: CANADA

FFO: KICK ASS PUNK

so other than wormwitch, and I think ive made clear my love of those guys, im not really finding a lot of new bands that are jumping out and grabbing my attention at the moment so I thought id go ahead and refresh that cobra noir post. they were around from about 2004 till 2009 and goddammit these guys were good. melodic crusty punk/hardcore. nothing extremely technical or over the top. just a solid hardcore band from top to bottom. out of all the Canadian hardcore bands ive mentioned with ties to cursed, these guys were the ones with no direct link to cursed, although they did share members with the black hand and ire who did have members from cursed. ironically they were the closest in sound and tone out of all of them to what cursed was doing. and out of that group they are probably my favorite not named cursed. (confused yet?) (bothered by how many times ive said cursed?) (I purposely chose that band pic because the singer was wearing a cursed shirt) (oh and...CURSED) each one of them seemed to have a different take on hardcore. ire was heavily doom influenced. cobra noir was the most punk. the black hand had excellent crust/thrash sound. acrid was as much grind as it was hardcore. and mi amore (whos only connection here is sharing members with cobra noir) were the most straight up hardcore. I have several links below for what im pretty sure is all their recorded output. I also have a link for the abridged pause blog which contains links for all the discographies of the other bands ive mentioned (except mi amore. that may turn up here as well). and there you can also find discogs for other great bands like spread the disease, new day rising, ignorance never settles and several others who all, in a 6 degrees of kevin bacon kind of way, tied in to this family tree.

abode of the dead

barricades

demo

self titled ep

live

the holy mountain split

abridged pause

COBRA NOIR (FKA The Black Cobra)

GENRE: Dark Hardcore, Punk, Sludge
FFO: Coliseum, Cursed, Black Ships, The Black Hand, Young And In The Way
HOMEPAGE (dead)
D/L "Abode Of The Dead"
D/L "Barricades"
D/L "Road To Ruins"
D/L "Split With The Holy Mountain"
D/L "Studio 3 Live Session"

I can't mention Mi Amore and other Canadian hardcore bands without also heaping massive amounts of praise upon Quebec's COBRA NOIR. Also existing in the mid-late 2000's, this band did their part in laying the groundwork for every good hardcore band you hear today. Half of their stuff is damn near impossible to find, digitally or physically, but I managed to scrape together their 2 LP's and a few more at the links above. Their first LP, Abode Of The Dead (2005), is about as close in feel and tone to Cursed as you are going to find in a record. You should be downloading this shit at this point. Their next LP, Barricades (2006), seems almost purposefully under-produced in comparison, but for any fan of Coliseum or Heartless, this is a joy to hear. Listening to these records today, they are still completely and absolutely relevant. It's hard to believe they were recorded almost a decade ago. And if you happen to have MP3's of their Demonstration, Self-Titled or Last Days split 7", please let us know.