The Cost
| The Cost | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) |
Emocore hardcore punk |
| founding | 1999 |
| resolution | 2004 |
| Website | www.myspace.com/ |
| Last occupation | |
| Steve Loewinsohn | |
Guitar, vocals |
Sean McArdle |
| Shaun Osburn | |
| Michael Hoffman | |
| former members | |
| Laird Rickard | |
The Cost were an emocore band from Oakland , California / USA that existed from 1999 to 2004.
history
All members of the band were close friends even before the band was founded, so the band was always a friendship project for them.
The band toured extensively on the West Coast and across the United States.
In 2002, Chimera was the band's first and only album on the Lockout label ! Records out. Overall, the band released an EP and a split EP and was featured on some samplers.
In a report and interview about the band in 2002 it is said about the album:
"The Cost's new album, Chimera, may just be the next step in the East Bay hardcore evolutionary ladder, proving its spirit is alive and well"
In July 2003 the band played their last concert and then broke up.
style
The band plays a sometimes rather chaotic emo style. Characteristic are the slow, melancholic parts in their pieces - which are supported by briefly appearing atmospheric guitar walls - as well as faster, harder outbursts with emotional screams and screamed or half-written parts of the text. Furthermore, there are also rather very fast hardcore punk-typical pieces with emotional - sometimes screamed - vocals.
In addition to many emo and hardcore punk bands, the post-hardcore legend Fugazi and the no-wave / noise rock band Sonic Youth are named as influences.
Discography
EPs / splits
- Split with dbs, 7 " (1999, Sellout Records )
- El Sueno De La Razon Produce Monstrous (1999, New Disorder Records )
Albums
- Chimera, CD (2002, Lookout! Records )
Sampler contributions
- A Little Something for Everyone (New Disorder Records, 2000)
- Another Juan Rides the Bus ( Stickrod Tapes , 2000)
- New Disorder Soda (New Disorder Records, 2001)
- Lookout! Freakout Episode 3 (Lookout! Records, 2002)
Web links
- The band's page on MySpace
- The band's side on the New Disorder Records label
- The band at the label Lockout! Records
- Interview with the band from 2002
swell
- ↑ http://www.myspace.com/thecostlikesdonkeys , accessed January 19, 2008, under: "About The Cost"; Quote: "The Cost was a band of close friends from Oakland and San Francisco"
- ↑ http://www.sfweekly.com/2002-12-11/music/chimerical-men/ ; Accessed January 18, 2008
- ↑ http://www.sfweekly.com/2002-12-11/music/chimerical-men/ ; Accessed January 19, 2008; Quote: "The foursome makes music informed by the bands its members grew up with - from DC hardcore idols Fugazi to art-noise legends Sonic Youth to ska-punk locals Operation Ivy"