Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Music news Protect your crotch from the attacking Hawks
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Michael Keenan is a man possessed. The vocalist who fronts the band Hawks is a personable guy who's been a fixture on Atlanta's punk and hardcore scenes since the early '90s, most notably playing guitar for Electrosleep Int'l. But put him on a stage and the transformation is like Jekyll and Hyde. "Something about a crowd puts me in a fucking frenzy," he says.
Over the last year, Hawks have refined an aggressive dirge that recalls a noisier era of indie rock when bands like the Jesus Lizard, Hammerhead and Unsane ruled. Made up of Keenan, Shane Patrick (drums), Andrew Wiggins (guitar) and Sean Fitzgerald (bass), the group concocts a screeching wall of aggressive, guitar-driven mantras, samples and growling vocals. Songs such as "White Buffalo," "Shitfist" and "The Thrust that Missed" from debut LP Barnburners (Army of Badluck) present a mass of chugging but precise musicianship.
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