Ferocious Eagle

Location:
Portland, Oregon, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Rock
Site(s):
Label:
54º40' or Fight!
Type:
Indie
"Ferocious Eagle’s second full-length, Laughing at the Horror of Being Alive, takes the band’s original formula—start/stop heaviness balanced by bolts of melody and the occasional vocal harmony—and blows it all to hell. And I mean that in a good way. The Horror is an ambitious undertaking that finds Adam Jelsing’s (The Ax) overdriven drums often switching course in midstream, with dual frontmen Greg Dalbey (Train to Nowhere) and Jon Anderson (Maybe Happening) contributing memorable one-liners (”Everybody needs somebody to use,” “Cause I was on top of her doesn’t mean I love her”) and murderous riffage. The album’s construction (a jigsaw approach slightly reminiscent of the Helmet’s Meantime and the Refused’s The Shape of Punk to Come) leads to some impressive and unexpected melodic departures, and the band has learned to balance its meaty and pretty sides like true champs. We only hope the band will continue to explore more uncharted musical territory after Dalbey’s impending departure to San Francisco."

-CASEY JARMAN, Willamette Week



"Sound of the Drum" by FEROCIOUS EAGLE from Mr. Hjelseng on Vimeo.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



 



"Have you noticed that Indie Rock is just Indie now? Thank you then to Ferocious Eagle, a Portland-based trio with what can only be a purposefully direct name, for putting the rock back. When you push play on a Ferocious Eagle song you're getting just what the name says. Songs that are alternately distant and soaring or ready to rip your face off. Songs that are frenzied and, somehow still precise. So take out your earplugs and trade in your PBR for a whiskey and get your rock on."

-BEN, Busted up Bulldozers
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