It’s hard to imagine a sound even heavier and more musically challenging than that of Long Island metalcore innovators From Autumn To Ashes, until you hear Warship, the crushing new project by FATA members Francis Mark (vocals/drums) and Rob Lauritsen (guitar/bass). The duo’s forthcoming Vagrant Records debut, Supply And Depend, showcases a startling union of imagination and brutality for a lethal sonic arsenal entirely set apart from the signature attack of their former band.
Francis mark, of warship
“I don’t think a lot of people were expecting this. When I said I was starting a new band, people thought I was going to go in a more mellow direction,” says Mark. “It’s definitely a lot more blown-out, and raw, and with more driving rhythms and ugliness than we ever did with.”
Joel Loftus
(toil) ”to stand at the gates asking. ” did i deserve this? a lifetime on the ground and i never knew the purpose” That’s the best description of the band. Really, I think this is a band with a message ( WARNING ) a message that will not be lost on the huddled masses yearning to breathe free but lost on most. ( blown-out/raw/ugliness ) a true reflection of our time, hard to look at and even harder to swallow the accountability. (indoors) might be the best song on this cd for this line ”mourn the loss of who we were and embrace who we’ll become.
in a industry filled with coked out doomsayers and helpless distractors i would say they are fantastic.
if you would like to submit a review of a band ,bike part or whatever.send it to me joel at joelloftus@cableone.net and i will make sure to get it on here.i would just like to see something more then photos on this site.so lets see what you think of things and stuff.
punknews.org
“If you could look at Francis Mark’s career as a musical spectrum, you have to suppose that Warship helps bookend the heavier side of it. He helped pioneer the new wave of melodic metalcore for several years in From Autumn to Ashes while capturing his apparent affection for `90s emo in the Biology side project. Now, with Warship, Mark’s newest endeavor with fellow FATA expatriate Rob Lauritsen, the duo has concocted a competent and fiery sound that leans closer to the Hydra Head school of metal than either Ferret or Trustkill’s.
Supply and Depend supplies ash-black guitars with smoggy atmospheres or charred edges, depending on the song. A similarity to Until Your Heart Stops-era Cave In (see: strange melodic singing parts meet brutal, heavy noisy ‘core-backed passages) seems to persist, like in the dynamically tempoed “Profit Over People” where Mark demonically howls “I know enough to know that I hate it / I hear his train coming, the ground begins to shake.” “Where’s Your Leash” throbs and crackles with Mark’s patented, distorted snarl.
It’s not all bang and clatter in both the musical and vocal department, though. “Wounded Paw” bears more brooding parts; granted, these moments are interpersed with sudden accelerations into fast and raucous territory. The especially deliberate “Lousy Horoscope” is a bit like Biology, actually, as it comes off like old Sunny Day Real Estate filled-out and infiltrated by slightly more dense and metallic tones; the emotional climax at the end finishes it off well, too, even though it looks a bit iffy on paper (“I know I’m never going to see you again / But I’m thankful for the time that we spent / And every time I lose a friend / I lose another layer of my armor“).
Supply and Depend certainly isn’t perfect. Not much of it sticks and the band could breathe once in a while (besides “Lousy Horoscope”), a freedom not entirely granted by the production.
Warship’s debut doesn’t quite fire on all cylinders at all times, but it provides plenty of neat ideas, meshing together Mark and Lauritsen’s influences well for a debut.”
Amy Sciarretto
“Supply and Defend rakes one’s equilibrium over the coals, thanks to shrill blasts of gritty guitars, effected vocals, plenty of shrieking and screaming and moody songs that are like a ten-ton barge floating in a sea of mud. Warship’s concept of “heavy” is markedly different than the majority of today’s metallions. It’s leaden and nearly pre-historic, thanks to bottom-heavy, low-end riffery. The songs are completely self-indulgent and would benefit from a producer editing them down for length, but Warship are at home with serving themselves and letting the songs overstay their welcome, even if only by a minute or two. There’s something to be said for the way this rule-bending band isn’t overly concerned with concise presentation.
“Profit over People” and “Wounded Paw” were probably birthed in the garage or the basement where Warship practices. This is by no means “feel good music” and towards the end of Supply and Defend, you’ll be a little wobbly and worse for wear, as though someone massaged you with a pair of sandpaper gloves. Musical masochists and sonic sadists, go forth and multiply with Warship.”
if you would like to submit a review of a band ,bike part or whatever.send it to me joel at joelloftus@cableone.net and i will make sure to get it on here.i would just like to see something more then photos on this site.so lets see what you think of things and stuff.
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