I pretty much suck at writing descriptions but umm.. They were from NC, were active early 2000's, and have some pretty tight instrumental aspects. Kind of sludgy at times, but in the end just something a bit different. Female vocals too at times.
UPDATE: I randomly found this on soulseek, It's their whole discography, including missing songs and much better organized than what I had posted below. Download this instead. It is missing some rough tracks off the Mastered Full Length, and a song off the Remain Standing comp, both of which I have below, but other than that, I think this has it all.
Complete Discography
UPDATE2: Got some info off a member of the band, plus a link to their demo
Does this "discography" have all that you've released?
-There was a CDR demo released in 2001 that is missing
Did you, or any of the other band members play in any other bands after/before?
Did you, or any of the other band members play in any other bands after/before?
-In '98 I played in a band called Mitchell w/ Russell (second drummer) & Cameron (original bassist). We put out a 12" split w/ a band called All The Answers.
Do you have any thoughts or words on the scene that you were part of (where were you from)?
-Nothing of note IMO. We were based out of Charlotte, NC. There wasn't a "skramz" scene at the time. Also, there wasn't a lot of cross pollination between genres. Metalcore was the main scene at the time.
Did you play any shows with interesting/noteworthy bands?
-We were very fortunate to be able to do a handful of small tours. I really enjoyed played in PA, namely Reading and Allentown. The shows were well attended and we always got a good reaction.
Bands of note: The first one that comes to mind High On Fire. I was excited to play a show with the dude from Sleep. We played a lot of shows w/ The Avenging Disco Godfather Of Soul. Our prior bands played together and I was always happy to play with them.
I also enjoyed playing with Advocate (very under rated) and Backstabbers Inc. We played with the more well known bands in the genre: pg.99 Circle Takes The Square, City Of Caterpillar, Neil Perry, Daughters, etc.
How did the band get on the splits with Turn Around Norman/Shadows and the Silence?
-The TAN split: I didn't have much of a hand in that release, other than printing the cover. We knew the vocalist from the time he put on house shows in Morgantown, WV during & our time in Mitchell. We stayed in touch and out later bands had some songs that no body else wanted to put out.
STATS: We played a handful of shows in their hometown (Blacksburg, VA). They reached out to us, and were able to put it out together. They took care of the pressing, we took care of the packing. I worked in a print shop at the time. We were lucky that my boss printed cover for bands like Universal order of Armageddon. So he was very accommodating when it came to DIY projects.
Demo
CD that never was
Mastered Full Length
Split with Shadows and the Silence
Split with Turn around Norman
Summer 02 Demo
Summer 2002 Tour CDR (this and the last link may be part of the same release, dunno though)
Various (Includes random song, and one song off Remain Standing comp.)
I'm pretty sure they were from Greensboro.. I saw them play a couple times when I lived there.
ReplyDeleteWe did play Gboro quite a bit. We knew the folks that ran Slave Magazine and Cedar ST.(I think that was the house name) pretty well. By the end of the band Cristina and I lived in CLT and Russell Lived in Carboro.
DeleteLee here from CTRWOD. We started out in Charlotte, NC in 2001 and broke up the first half of 2004.
ReplyDeleteHey there! Thanks for the comment. Here's some questions I have asked people in the past.
DeleteDoes this "discography" have all that you've released?
Did you, or any of the other band members play in any other bands after/before?
Do you have any thoughts or words on the scene that you were part of (where were you from)?
Did you play any shows with interesting/noteworthy bands?
How did the band get on the splits with Turn Around Norman/Shadows and the Silence?
Thanks!
Sorry for the delayed reply. Looks like I hit the wrong button and my answers did not publish.
Delete-There was a CDR demo released in 2001 that is missing
-In '98 I played in a band called Mitchell w/ Russell (second drummer) & Cameron (original bassist). We put out a 12" split w/ a band called All The Answers.
-Nothing of note IMO. We were based out of Charlotte, NC. There wasn't a "skramz" scene at the time. Also, there wasn't a lot of cross pollination
between genres. Metalcore was the main scene at the time.
-We were very fortunate to be able to do a handful of small tours. I really enjoyed played in PA, namely Reading and Allentown. The shows were well attended and we always got a good reaction.
Bands of note: The first one that comes to mind High On Fire. I was excited to play a show with the dude from Sleep. We played a lot of shows w/ The Avenging Disco Godfather Of Soul. Our prior bands played together and I was always happy to play with them.
I also enjoyed playing with Advocate (very under rated) and Backstabbers Inc. We played with the more well known bands in the genre: pg.99 Circle Takes The Square, City Of Caterpillar, Neil Perry, Daughters, etc.
-The TAN split: I didn't have much of a hand in that release, other than printing the cover. We knew the vocalist from the time he put on house shows in Morgantown, WV during & our time in Mitchell. We stayed in touch and out later bands had some songs that no body else wanted to put out.
STATS: We played a handful of shows in their hometown (Blacksburg, VA). They reached out to us, and were able to put it out together. They took care of the pressing, we took care of the packing. I worked in a print shop at the time. We were lucky that my boss printed cover for bands like Universal order of Armageddon. So he was very accommodating when it came to DIY projects.
Thanks so much!
DeleteDo you think that CDR demo exists anywhere?
There are less than 100 physical copies of the CDr. I will upload, and post a link here.
ReplyDeletePretty rough demo. We didn't have a lot of time or money. Russell recorded all of our material.
Deletehttps://www.sendspace.com/file/o03an2
Thank you so much for all this information and the tracks! Nice to keep this stuff alive.
DeleteGlad to do it. Haven't thought about this stuff in a long time.
DeleteCrazy to stumble upon this so many years later. I had to listen to it all while at work today. So many memories through the various incarnations. I'm still glad to have been a part of this. Might have to steal some riffs for my new project. haha.
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