Even at its noisiest, some killer melodies and surprising hooks surface throughout, moments of extreme poppiness here and there, but almost always buried beneath an avalanche of crumbling distortion, strangled guitarnoise, flurries of drum damage, psychedelic squalls, out of which emerge some seriously kick ass and weirdly groovy sludge punk not to mention some unlikely and impossibly catchy, dirge-gloom noise pop. Killer stuff.
-aQuarius Records
WYFBC is as noisy and loud as it is dark and weird and successfully encompasses a wide variety of sounds making it close to impossible to classify Chain Gang Grave as any particular genre...This EP could please fans of Merzbow or Cult Ritual just as easily as it could please fans of Cold Cave and Flipper
-CVLT Nation
See that looming, eerie being on the cover? That’s their career coming behind you, hands waiting to strangle the hip out of your veins and leave bruises all over your neck that you try to write of as hickeys because you actually enjoyed it...5/5
-Deaf Sparrow
Really tough to nail what these fools are going for, but if they wanted to make a punishing noise rock opus when they recorded When Your Friends Become Cops, then they fukkn nailed it. Ominous from the first note, and (inadvertently?) steering clear of virtually every cliché, this New York outfit sounds cool as fukk without trying to sound cool.
-Terminal Escape
There's absolutely no way you could ever pin this to a particular genre. it's dark and pissed off, but not in a way that beats you right over the head. I don't know. It is what it is. And it's unusual. And it's awesome.
-Andrew Aversionline/NoEcho.net
Chain Gang Grave...have no obvious affiliation to the fashionable, much-maligned North Brooklyn music scene. (When Your Friends Become Cops) is as compelling of a first recording as you could reasonably want.
-Invisible Oranges
I really like this band's sound... it's sort of in this little groove between hardcore and post-punk. I feel like some songs and parts are definitely Fall-inspired, but it's harder, faster, and heavier than most bands who ply those sounds... Killer demo."
-Sorry State Records
John Spencer Blues Explosion smoking hash from soda-can with The Stooges and Ace Frehley and Peter Criss... It's what the time in between seconds sounds like... Chaos punk evolved beyond any chaos punk band. Any.
-Christopher Thee Wailing Siren, Yo!Scunt
credits
released January 5, 2014
CGG is:
Andrew Lanza: Guitar
Jason Bennett: Drums
Young Al Bundy: Vocals/Lyrics
Joshua Poveda: Bass (live & future recordings)
Recorded and mixed by Jason in his basement in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Mastered by James Plotkin. Drawings by John De La O.
supported by 7 fans who also own “When Your Friends Become Cops”
I came accross Black Curse, and their first demo, on Greg Biehl / No Gleaming Light YT channel in late 2019 and a bit later, in 2020, as it was covid, a whole lot of time was spent at home listening to music.
In April 2020, I took a slap in my face. The songs that were already on the demo, with the new production here were so insane, it dragged me to hell. Black Curse is definitely one of the most violent band I listened in the last years. Next-level Black-Death metal for sure ! drs_dramm
supported by 6 fans who also own “When Your Friends Become Cops”
One of life's greatest deceptions is that HoB didn't carry on longer (even if Herxheim is great). We can only wonder what type of aural monstrosities they would have come up with. Their disjointed occult sound and stitched compositions are truly unique and will never be replicated. One of the truly unique, don't-give-a-fuck bands. Plug in this masterpiece and be immersed in their eldritch world. Deadpanist
supported by 6 fans who also own “When Your Friends Become Cops”
Man I’ve devoured this album countless times and I don’t think this group will wear on me anytime soon. The vocals are perfect for this sound, the production is ideal; the drums are perfectly garage’d. Cannot wait for the next project. Riley Kesselring