Band: HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION
Genres: Punk / Hardcore / Post-Hardcore / Metallic Hardcore / Emo / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence
Related artists: ?.
Country: California U.S.A.
Years Active: 2004-2005
For fans of: Loma Prieta, Black Channels, A Company Of Heroes, Hawak, Caught In The Fall, Reversal Of Man, Envy, Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Beau Navire, Oktober Skyline, Means To An End, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Isodora Crane, Youth Funeral, Mine, Iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook and Dispensing Of False Halos.
Related artists: ?.
Country: California U.S.A.
Years Active: 2004-2005
For fans of: Loma Prieta, Black Channels, A Company Of Heroes, Hawak, Caught In The Fall, Reversal Of Man, Envy, Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Beau Navire, Oktober Skyline, Means To An End, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Isodora Crane, Youth Funeral, Mine, Iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook and Dispensing Of False Halos.
Label(s): Self Released
HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION were from California and recorded a 'Demo' EP in 2004 and the 'We Are the Tide' EP in 2005 before disbanding. I only heard about them recently, from science knows where. They played an excellent style of technical screamo not unlike Loma Prieta, A Company Of Heroes, Love Lost But Not Forgotten and Reversal Of Man.
The 'Demo' is just that (a demo, but still very good), while the final EP is fucking amazing. Opener and title track "We Are the Tide" has a wonderfully post-rock second half that sounds like Swedish Envy or something. "Bete Noire" has exceptional vocals (sometimes dual) as well as some metal riffage. Speaking of second halves "The Sea Will Electrocute Us All" is probably the ultimate song on this EP, while closer and "Mara" kind of encapsulates everything that makes the other three tracks great.
Horribly overlooked band!
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DISCOGRAPHY
2004 - Demo digitalEP (stream/donate/download here)
2005 - We Are the Tide digitalEP (stream/donate/download here)
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(2005) HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION - "The Sea Will Electrocute Us All" (from 'We Are the Tide')
(2005) HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION - "We Are the Tide" (from 'We Are the Tide')
(2005) HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION - "Mara" (from 'We Are the Tide')
(2004) HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION - "Alone in a Two Sided Room" (from 'Demo')
(2004) HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION - "Simon Weil" (from 'Demo')
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HORROR CITY SUPERSTITION additional links
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Thank you so much for the feature and all your support! Immensely appreciated, especially your words on the final EP. A friendly heads up if you didn't know, there was actually a vocalist change between the Demo and final EP.
ReplyDeleteJust in case this might be of interest to you or anyone else out there in the space, here are my lyrics for the final EP:
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"We Are the Tide"
Flood
The
constant
Reflection
of
Birth
alone
Hearts
balance
The
content
For
silence
Casts
aside
Indifferent
apologies
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"Bete Noire"
Nameless Angels
Arrest the reminiscence
of a voice sincere
Fills a familiar room
with a dozen promises
Adjacent prisons align
Fate bleached
By star lit sky
Absent words
Lost goodbyes
Stain the taste of resentment
Every direction
Casket walls kiss the remains
Of a new morning scar
Forever
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"The Sea Will Electrocute Us All"
I have yet to come
To level the sea
Armed with arrows
To shutter
The desolate shades
of known faces
Drown
within
a still
portrait of
imperfections
Relapse.Delete.Relapse.Repeat.
Confessions of a modern resistance
Falls divided
upon a beauty
Defeated by decay
The decor
leaves lines of lifeless figures of
A true love
Dead within
A false noise
Bled silent
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"Mara"
Mara
Echoes
battle
Against a blank screen
To fade
a light unattained
Burdens
a shapeless shadow
Sliding along a canvas
Painting
motionless
skies
Laid
to
rest
On
Parallel Pillows
Unspoken skin
Retaliate quiet breaths of residue
Breach downcast eyes
Shut
Lips stretched so thin
Love mends the wounds once terminal