Unbroken (band)

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Unbroken
General information
Genre (s) Hardcore , metalcore
founding 1991
resolution 1995
Last occupation
Dave Claibourn
Steve Miller
guitar
 Eric Allen
Rob Moran
Todd Beattie

Unbroken was an American metallic hardcore band from San Diego that existed in the early to mid-1990s. In a video interview for a DVD on Indecision Records, her bassist Rob Moran said the name Unbroken was chosen to highlight her affiliation with the Straight Edge movement.

description

The band's sound was very influential in developing the new school sound in a more metallic direction. Many see the band as being instrumental in the development of metalcore . Above all, her subliminally melodic guitar work can be considered groundbreaking for later bands like Shai Hulud or Morning Again . In terms of content, the band moved between political or socially critical and, on a personal level, desperately nihilistic, self-destructive content. The latter culminated in the suicide of their guitarist Eric Allen a few years after the breakup of their band (see the text of the song "Razor").

After the breakup, some members joined new bands like Kill Holiday (Steven Miller), Swing Kids (Eric Allen), Over My Dead Body , Some Girls (Rob Moran), Johnny Angel and Stabbed By Words (Dave Claibourn).

In 2009 the band played three reunion shows in Chicago, Pomona and Seattle. In 2010 there was the only reunion show on European soil in London for the time being.

Discography

EPs and singles

  • You Won't Be Back 7 ″ (New Age Records NAR 12/1992)
  • Final Expression / Set Up - Unbroken / Groundwork split 7 ″ (Bloodlink Records BLOOD 004/1994)
  • Unbroken / Abhinanda split 7 ″ (Trust No One Recordings TRUSTNO 06/1994)
  • And / Fall on Proverb 7 ″ (31G # 01/1994)
  • Circa '77 7 ″ (New Age Records NAR 29/1995)

Albums

  • Ritual (New Age Records NAR 16/1993)
  • Life. Love. Regret. (New Age Records NAR 22/1994)

Compilations

  • It's Getting Tougher to Say the Right Things (compilation of Eps and Singles) (Indecision Records IND 24/2000)
  • The Death of True Spirit (Both albums remastered on one CD) (Indecision Records IND 58, 2003)

DVDs

  • Indecision Video Vault Volume 1 (2002, Indecision Records)

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