Black Cross

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Art Offensive 00:00 Tools
Black Market Cigarettes 00:00 Tools
Screaming from the Top of the Stairs 00:00 Tools
Icebox in the Alley 00:00 Tools
Gift to the Sea 00:00 Tools
Just Go Outside 00:00 Tools
Commercial Break 00:00 Tools
Bitta's Walk 00:00 Tools
V.K.H.C. 00:00 Tools
Peking Man in a Knight Suit 00:00 Tools
Plank Walker 00:00 Tools
Lifelong Cell 00:00 Tools
Roll Up Your Sleeves 00:00 Tools
Wolves 00:00 Tools
Snake Oil 00:00 Tools
Business Is Everything 00:00 Tools
One In Four 00:00 Tools
It Gets Dark So Early 00:00 Tools
Black Sheep 00:00 Tools
Name Me No One 00:00 Tools
Chagrin 00:00 Tools
A Feast of Snakes 00:00 Tools
Answers to a .45 00:00 Tools
Severance Pays 00:00 Tools
House of Light 00:00 Tools
Guess Whos Coming to Dinner 00:00 Tools
Adjacent Truths 00:00 Tools
Selling Point 00:00 Tools
Firelight 00:00 Tools
We Don't Owe You 00:00 Tools
11:59 Answering the Call 00:00 Tools
Peking Dub 00:00 Tools
Get Out of My Head 00:00 Tools
The Bean & Those Like Him in New York 00:00 Tools
Let Me Sink 00:00 Tools
Wombat 00:00 Tools
Playing With Knives 00:00 Tools
Tools & Chrome 00:00 Tools
Tools and Chrome 00:00 Tools
The Bean And Those Like Him In New York 00:00 Tools
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner 00:00 Tools
The Bean & Those Like Him in N 00:00 Tools
Get Outta My Fucking Head 00:00 Tools
11: 59 Answering the Call 00:00 Tools
Hidden Song 00:00 Tools
11.59 Answering The Call 00:00 Tools
This Song Is For Alex 00:00 Tools
Hidden Track 00:00 Tools
Heavy Metal 00:00 Tools
Genocidio 00:00 Tools
Sexta Feira 13 00:00 Tools
Minotauro 00:00 Tools
Chamamento Para A Morte 00:00 Tools
V.K.H.C 00:00 Tools
My Time 00:00 Tools
Genocidio (Live) 00:00 Tools
Spiked Bracelet 00:00 Tools
Tools And Chrome [Jawbox] 00:00 Tools
Severence Pays 00:00 Tools
11:59 Answeing the Call 00:00 Tools
Damned in the City 00:00 Tools
Bittas Walk 00:00 Tools
VKHC 00:00 Tools
It Gets So Dark Early 00:00 Tools
02. Playing With Knives 00:00 Tools
03. Tools & Chrome 00:00 Tools
01. Let Me Sink 00:00 Tools
It's Only True To You 00:00 Tools
Ana O. 00:00 Tools
Life-Long Cell 00:00 Tools
Feast of Snakes 00:00 Tools
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Black Cross formed in 2001 under the moniker Black Widows with the original line up of Rob Pennington (vocals, ex By The Grace Of God, Endpoint), Ryan Patterson (guitar, ex National Acrobat, Automatic), Evan Patterson (bass, ex National Acrobat), and Thommy Browne (ex By The Grace Of God, Automatic). They were united in their love of DC hardcore, a coming of age through the early 90's hardcore scene, and a desire to emphasize the aspects of hardcore and punk that they held dear. Black Widows recorded a debut EP for Initial Records (Stops A Beating Heart, now included on the Widows Bloody Widows CD collection) and soon after joined the Equal Vision Records roster. As work on their debut album began, it came to their attention that the trademark for the name "Black Widows" was owned by another party (not to mention had been used thousands of times over by other bands) and the band decided to change its name to Black Cross. In late 2002, Black Cross entered the studio with producer/guru J. Robbins to record Art Offensive, their full length debut. Released in 2003, Art Offensive garnered praise just about everywhere and the band set out on the road with the likes of Thursday, Give Up The Ghost, Hope Conspiracy, These Arms Are Snakes, and Suicide File, among others. Soon enough, line up changes, the members' other bands, and responsibilities at home loomed and Black Cross became sidelined. Thommy Browne left the band to spend more time at home with his wife and children, with Sean Johnson briefly joining the band on drums, followed by Matt Jaha. Rob's touring time was limited due to teaching and family priorities, Evan formed Breather Resist (now Young Widows) who toured heavily, and Ryan then formed Coliseum in order to be able to spend more time touring. While Black Cross never broke up, nearly all of 2005 found the band entirely inactive with the exception of the release of the three-song EP Sink, Knives & Chrome on Ryan & Evan's label Auxiliary Records. Late in the year, they reconvened with a new, more stable, line up and began writing songs for their next album. Evan switched from bass to second guitar and his Young Widows band mate Nick Thieneman (also of Brain Banger) took over bass duties. A friend of Rob's since the Endpoint / Sunspring tours in the mid-90s, Forrest Kuhn (Sunspring, Halifax Pier) joined on drums and the band made a grand reemergence at Auxiliary's Last Saturday show series kickoff in January 2006. A year later, the band entered the studio with friend Chris Owens engineering to record their long awaited second proper full length. Titled Severance Pays, the album finds Black Cross focusing their patented melodic-yet-noisy hardcore sound while digging deeper into their earlier melodic punk influences such as Wipers, Husker Du, Gray Matter, etc. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.