Cammo: Demo Cassette

Description

New heavy rocked out hardcore from Raleigh featuring members of Double Negative, Pollution and Whatever Brains.

Our take: Demo cassette from this new band from Raleigh featuring members of a whole lot of other bands. They describe their sound as scumgaze, which makes perfect sense as soon as you hear it. So, heres the background; if youve followed the musical projects of Sean Livingstone, youre in for a real treat. I jumped on board this train when Sean was in New Yorks Pollution, which was followed by Shoxx and then Bandages once he moved back to North Carolina, though he was in bands before that that you might be familiar with as well. Of the members lengthy resumes, Seans feels the most relevant as the way that Cammo smash together Celtic Frost and 90s noise rock with a dash of shoegaze harmony and texture is very much akin to some of the things that were happening in his aforementioned bands. However, the other members also bring their own thing to the table. Drummer Evan is/was in Whatever Brains, Das Drip, and numerous others, and hes one of the most powerful and rock-solid drummers Ive ever encountered, and one of the few people who I can imagine hanging with the monstrous stack of amplifiers behind him when Cammo plays. Then theres Justin from Double Negative and Davidians on second guitar (Cammo doesnt have a bass player, though I promise you wont miss it theyre still impossibly heavy), and if youre familiar with the music that Justin has made youll also hear plenty of telltale marks of his hand in these songs. So, theres the story so far. Theres a pretty good chance that if youre a follower of what Sorry State does youll be interested in this band, so go ahead and give them a try.