Converse Rubber Tracks x MetalSucks 2015 Preview: Ghosts of Sailors at Sea

Later this month, ten unsigned bands will visit a Converse Rubber Tracks facility in either Brooklyn, NY, or Boston, MA, where they’ll lay down some jams at one of Converse’s completely free, state-of-the-art recording studios. And as if that wasn’t cool enough, bands at the Brooklyn Converse Rubber Tracks will work with producer Will Putney (The Acacia Strain, Suicide Silence, Exhumed), while bands at the Boston Converse Rubber Tracks will work work with producer Kurt Ballou (Converge, High on Fire, Torche). 

MetalSucks held an open application process in July for bands to apply, then Axl and Vince worked with Will and Kurt to choose their five favorite bands for each city. We’ll be previewing each of the selected bands in the weeks leading up to these recording sessions, so you can get a taste of what’s in store for ya! Today, we feature Ghosts of Sailors at Sea from Boston.

Ghosts of Sailors at Sea’s glorious racket could very well wake the dead. That’s a compliment: the instrumental quartet categorize their music as mathcore, but they’re being far too humble. Sure, they have technical, angular guitar lines and cherry bomb drums galore — but what they do ultimately extends far beyond your typical Dillinger worship, and they’d probably be far more at home on a bill with Animals as Leaders or Scale the Summit or even Intronaut than they would with Psyopus or The Number Twelve Looks Like You.

The difference is the way Ghosts of Sailors at Sea quench your thirst for melody. That’s not meant as an insult to any of the mathcore bands named in the previous paragraph — challenging music’s boundaries is a nobel endeavor, to be sure. But sometimes you don’t wanna be caught in the middle of the tornado — you’d rather stand at a safe distance with a long lens and simply admire its intimidating beauty. And that’s what Ghosts of Sailors at Sea do so damn well — they create something spectacular and beautiful and weird and, yes, fearsome, and then they present it in such a way that you can little besides watch and try to pick up your jaw off the floor.

Check out a sampler of the band’s upcoming full-length, Red Sky Morning, below… and prepare for Ghosts of Sailors at Sea to haunt the oceans of your mind.