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Phantom Of The Black Hills
Born To Gun

Album US 2010 on Ratchet Blade Records label
Rock, Folk, World and

"Tell your God to get ready for blood"...Whether your devotion is to doom or destiny, the Phantom of the Black Hills will take you into Death's Dominion, a world where banjo pickers moonlight as murderers and a wanton fiddler takes his hat off to no one. On the new album "Ghosts", each song is a roll of the bones, and it shows that devils do howl (while angels moan). From the first song "Confessions of a Barn-Burner" to the last "Roses on a Grave", "Ghosts" makes a music that brings with it a murderous implulse and a desire for revenge...so get your gun out first and get "Ghosts", a toxic moonshine cocktail of countryaggrothrashcowpunk and hear something that others cannot. “Few albums take me by such a complete surprise as the debut by Phantom of the Black Hills’ “Ghosts”. From the first sounds of a fiddle decompose into a thuddingly dreadful banjo pluck on “Confessions of a Barn Burner” we know that there is an evil journey ahead of us. “Ghosts” manages to avoid the biggest pitfall of albums in the Gothic Americana genre: pretentiousness. All too often, even established artists, push the nostalgic or demonic angle too hard and it comes off as forced and fake. Phantom of the Black Hills avoid this and have created a simply fantastic album. “Ghosts” is by far not only one of the best albums of 2009, but is definitely Required Rodentia.” Rodentia Magazine “If Glenn Danzig and Al Jourgensen stayed up all night listening to old Porter Wagoner and Hank Sr. records and drinking homemade corn liquor, then decided to make an album together, it still wouldn't come close to the bleak, inventive darkness of this eleven-track hatework. Can't recommend it enough..” Jon Steffens - WolvesHollow

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