Reviews

I’ve had my earphones filled with the sounds WYOMING YOUNG AND STRONG this week. The Seattle trio generates a brooding atmosphere on the order of Black Tusk and Kylesa, and similarly shout their lyrics (often in unison). There’s something quite fierce, and even a bit joyful, about such a presentation. There are, after all, fantastic tales to be told!

Doomed and stoned

 

Black Wire builds its own sharp peaks and broad valleys across 10 tracks and 47 minutes of careening, noise-informed heavy. They acknowledge the likes of Mastodon as an influence, and that’s there, but with the sometimes combined barks of Engelhardt and Williams, the sludge-meets-burgeoning-progressivism style of their riffs and rhythms, cuts like “Black Wire,” opener “Redland Wanderer” and bookending finale “Age of Iron” feel more like mid-period Kylesa, and that, especially considering Black Wire is their debut preceded just by 2019’s Death and Ruin four-song EP, is a striking impression to make, with Engelhardt bridging that Phillip Cope-ism with the open swagger of West Coast-style noise rock.

The obelisk

 

With dual vocals highlighting the heavy guitar and drums, WY&S released the four-song Death and Ruin EP in 2018. They have since been playing shows gathering support around the Pacific Northwest through their energetic live performances. Their debut full-length ‘Black Wire’ is due out on Friday November 27th.

 

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Live at the Rendezvous. As a three-piece. Thanks Eric Fundingsland for the video.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live at the Kraken back in October 2021 (Back in the two-piece days). Thanks Mark Konings for the video

 

BANDS WE’VE PLAYED WITH

Fister
Sorcia
Sun Crow
Thoughts for the Builders
Twin Void
Born Without Blood
Lagoon
Goat Sanctuary
Dehiscent
Law Boss
Hexecutioner
Wet Temple
Swampheavy
Torpedo
Old Dirty Buzzard
The Bismarck
Zebra Hunt
Voycheck
DarkMysticWoods
Sabertooth
Dream Circuit
Sheenjek
Caesarean
Yuzu
Diyu
Law Boss
Old Growth
Githyanki
Elecvnts
Model Snakes
Regretski
Elk Witch
Tigers on Opium
Cloudstone
Serial Hawk
Male//Gaze
Of the Heavy Sun
Pink Boa
Waiting in the Willows

PLACES WE’VE PLAYED

Lucky Liquor
Bar House
The Kraken
The Funhouse
The Clockout Lounge
The Highline
Kvlt Mead
Lucky Dive
The Valley
The Central Saloon
Substation
Victory Lounge
Southgate Roller Rinkk
The Skylark
The Blue Moon
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