Red Ants

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"Red Ants have debuted with a near-flawless merging of Vincent Prices frantic, fascist marches punctuated by partner Moduloks goose-step vocal flows. Phobos Deimos is 10 tracks of angry, fist-pumping anthems of urban rebellion set in a dark, desolate present with promise for an even bleaker future."



Urb Magazine0

12/05



"Modulok rages against the machine that is authority, throwing up graffiti, stealing your girlfriend and serving every runny-nose, thumb-sucking delinquent on the block in the process. If you think life is a picnic, be warned that Red Ants have marched onto the scene with a nearly flawless debut designed to upset the festivities."



Exclaim! Magazine

10/05



"Red Ants make for an adventurous duo trekking decisively towards the outer limits of the rap world. In an intriguingly bizarre mash-up of conservative elements and non-conformity, Phobos Deimos has the appeal of an elaborate b-movie soundtrack, creating harmony out of seeming dissonance, never leaving tracks stagnant but upgrading them constantly with often foreign but ultimately fitting instrumentation. From a hip-hop perspective, Price's compositions are ridiculously compelling, to the point where they'll have you wondering why underground hip-hop often sounds so uneventful when so little is required to breathe new life into it."



Rapreviews.com

01/06



"I was forced to note that these guys do not show any superficiality; the essence is musical, rather cohesive and remarkable, even more when one plunges oneself into the ten titles of this first opus worthy of being called amongst the most effective independent hip-hop. One could put his hand to be cut that the majority of these titles were confined to very late nights in a smoked out Canadian pad and data processing where the sampler is king. "Phobos Deimos", whose best moments are without any doubt "Symbiotic Killing Fields" and "Future Imperfect", is full-blown well-produced astonishment, each title carrying its batch of interest, with the tight flows of MC Modulok in hand-made musical environments."



Bokson.net (France)

09/05



"The duo Modulok and Vincent Price, together Red Ants, earned this review even thoughin accordance with our knowledge the CD is not available in Switzerland.Very dark, hard Beats under-paints those raps of Modulok, which contentwise are also no light foodIn the Canadian underground itself Red Ants are already well-known and with their debut album on their own label Seize the Capital! Record, hopefully they will reach more listeners."



Hiphop.ch (Switzerland)

09/05



"During the last three years Red Ants have built a loyal cult following and much indie media buzz from their notoriously hype live shows throughout Toronto and Ontario, where furniture and egos often get damagedbeyond repair. But with the release of their debut album Phobos Deimos on their own Seize The Capital! Records, Red Ants stand posed to take their proverbial molotov cocktail of grimey rap realness from Toronto to the rest of the world - and make a permanent scar on the history of hip-hop."



Caribbean Feedback (Guyana)

10/05



Red Ants was originally conceived on Toronto’s east side in the summer of 2002 by Modulok and Predaking, two emcees of Guyanese heritage who had been collaborating since their high school days as part of the 90s rap group Symbiots (alongside Astral Black) and as two of the brains behind the legendary underground hip-hop magazine Twisted Linguistiks. Modulok had just returned from some inspirational gigs in the Czech Republic, Predaking had just completed an inspirational prison sentence. Both were hungry to buckle down and churn out some heavy shit. Shopping for beats ended once they discovered the enigmatic Vincent Price, who became a permanent member of the group and whose trademark menacing, cinematic production shaped the rugged war chariot style Red Ants have become notorious for. When Predaking was incarcerated in 2004 with no hope of release in the near future, Modulok and Vincent Price were forced to abandon their existing material and began work on new tracks with Modulok as the sole emcee. Early Red Ants classics like “Red Menace”, “Step Into My Office”, “Murderous”, “All That Is Solid”, and “Mechanical Gorilla Hitler meets Joey Stalin Halloween Leprechaun” were sadly never recorded and only survive in the memories of those lucky enough to catch those early, energetic live shows. Predaking may be released as early as 2010, and y’all definitely haven’t heard the last of him.



Red Ants 2005 debut Phobos Deimos burnt up Canadian college radio charts, received critical acclaim internationally and led to successful tours of the U.S. and Europe. URB magazine described it as “ten tracks of angry, fist-pumping anthems of urban rebellion set in a dark, desolate present with promise for an even bleaker future" and gave it four out of five stars. Now with Red Ant’s second album on the horizon, Omega Point, Modulok and Vincent Price continue to seize and conquer the decadent resort towns of a dying music industry choking on its own vomit. Red Ants remains the banging antithesis to the glitter rappers and pop-thugs, like a soviet coal plant run by the ghosts of dead Bolsheviks continuing to churn out grimy rap realness that blackens the sky and frightens the peasants. While fabricated major label emcees and their clones sell played-out fantasies and rap like they got down syndrome, Red Ants and their growing legion of comrades come with some real shit more likely to inspire you to throw a brick than buy a car.