Review: Your Black Star - Beasts

Posted on 16 July 2007 | 3 Comments

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Just Plain Rock, Post Rock

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Why does so much good heavy-ish rock music seem to come from Lousiville? Perhaps there is something in the water. If there is, you know that the hard rocking trio Your Black Star has been drinking it in huge quantities.

Their latest mini-LP called Beasts is full of driving atmospheric rock that isn’t afraid to get a little (or really) noisy and way up in your face. Image U2 and The Cult vs. Sareena Maneesh and Mastodon. Beasts is heavy without being metallic and atmospheric without being obscured in a fog of shoegaze. It is a lean, mean, raw sounding album that borrows heavily from both dark British post-punk and the riffage of Black Sabbath.

Beasts is out now on Hawthorne Street Records.

MP3 | Your Black Star – Fight Beasts
MP3 | Your Black Star – The Break Beasts

Comments

1 Anonymous - 375 days ago Sounds a bit like the Cult. I mean that in a good way.

2 GET OVER YOURSELF - 375 days ago For some reason i was thinkign this was going to be more in the vein on Black Cross (based on the louisville heavy ish thing) but i still duig the tunes.

3 Eric - 375 days ago I was totally going to write that this album sounded a bit like The Cult and also Serena Maneesh. Good call. As for Black Cross, it ain't that heavy. :)