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** REVIEWS FOR TERRIBLE BIRDS **

Easily one of the best albums this year. -razorcake #28

Excellent, the best release of the year. -www.sanctuary.ch

Something really special, CD of the month. -www.spoton.de

Truly Spectacular.. From the moment those tribal drums kick in, I knew I was in heaven, Miss Kel's vocals move from a dry intonation to a vocal chord-rending shriek, as the guitars press forward, seeking to smother you in a shambolic, nervous din. It's vicious, and it has a bite that you'll still be feeling long after the last track.
www.dropdeadmagazine.com

the press release has it right, describing this music as an 'unnerving din' but they missed the 'verging on classic' status, because from a garish 'The Stillness' onwards the scathing, brutal lyrics belting out of the angular music, with its often staccato drum attack is vicious, in an underfed, dangerous way. Short, jittery songs with jaundiced guitar, snappy bass and synth icicles, they're so effectively harsh with their post-punk wrath that the oddly catchy title track and the scathing 'Elixer' are like a massively '82 era punk band gone Goth, with consistently brilliant lyrics as the icing on an impressively foul cake. The ugliness is strangely beautiful, the music as ravaged as it is ravishing.
This is special.
- mick mercer

Combining death rock’s morbid theatrical catharsis and post-punk’s defiantly bleak structure, Black Ice have emerged as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most formatively impressive new artists.
Miss Kel’s vehement vociferations spew forth scornful accusations on “The Stillness” and unleash violent black bile outbreaks on “Elixir.”
“My Eyes Hurt” is without question the most peculiar and penetratingly outstanding selection on Terrible Birds... Terrible Birds has been sprung from its rot iron cage so check the record and respect the Ice!
- agouti music

Black Ice is artistically the most interesting contemporary deathrock/post-punk band around. . . ‘Elixer’, is an instant hit.
- funprox.com

Black Ice offer a great mix of creepy, slow-paced tracks with faster, more detached songs such as “Fingers,” the album’s closer...Terrible Birds is a shadowy and rich experience, proving this group to be another instance of intriguing dark music coming out of the San Francisco area..
-exclaim!

If you are a fan of Phantom Limbs and The Vanishing then Black Ice is just the treat.
- zero magazine

Melding haunting synth sounds with stark guitar playing and icy cold bass playing it all comes together to a fine mix straddling the line or better yet blending the lines of post-punk with deathrock. I hope they're in it for the long haul.
- gothpunk.com

** REVIEWS FOR EVE EP **

On its debut 10-inch the band fulfills its previous four-song demo's promise of florid poetry and languid drama with new songs that reveal teeth -- not delicate, razor-sharp eyeteeth for piercing flesh, but big, broad molars for grinding bones. With more pounds of pressure per cubic inch, Black Ice is clearly coming of age, and it's a very black beast, indeed.
- silke tudor, sf weekly

The new material on the E.P., "Broken Pieces", "Invisible", and "Eve E." is all very much in the vein of classic Deathrock, big heavy tribal drums, galloping guitar lines, throbbing bass, everything you love about your favorite classic deathrock/batcave artists. The previously released demo tracks "Severed", "Rat", and "No Excuse" all represent the creepier more ethereal side of their sound. When using the term ethereal to describe these songs, try not to picture anything remotely pastoral, or dreamlike. It's all a bit more unnerving than your standard Darkwave bands.
- deathrock.com

** REVIEWS FOR 4 SONG DEMO **
For those who like it nice and dark. . . Stevenson Sedgwick and Skot B revel in the gloom, making music with piano wire, samples, broken organ, wineglasses and other screwy objects.
- sfgate.com

A truly foreboding 4 song demo, on which the seductive drone of Miss Kel's voice hovers over vibrating piano wire, trilling wineglasses, pouring water, echoing pipes, broken organs, friendless violins, and brooding bass guitars. - silke tudor, sf weekly

Black Ice create a slow and spacious deathrock sound not unlike those experimental moments at the opening of "Bela Lugoi's Dead." Evocative and patient, Black Ice are in league with the monsters under your bed. They entrance you. They misplace your car keys. They steal your socks.
- professor jef, starvox.net

a Neoclassical-Neofolky-Dark-Wave or something like that, really difficult to describe. Somewhere between Skin/Swans, Sixth Comm/Mother Destruction, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Gitane Demone, Faith And The Muse and it definetly has a certain Gothic-Feeling. The band uses a lot of samples, archaic rhythms and has a very arty feeling. The voice of Miss Kel is very intensive and captivating and I wonder, if this wouldn´t be a fascinating live experience... get something very spezial (sic) here! If you like bands, whose name describe perfectly their music, you are right here!
- back again (germany)

Like a childs nightmare, Black Ice conjures images of creepy little things that live in your attic, under your bed, and in your head. It's an atmosphere of discomfort. All four songs work in cohesion, and Miss Kel's vocals come at you like that of a forsaken porcelain doll that's been rotting away in your basement covered in cobwebs for the past 50 years.
- rick a. mortis, deathrock nation