Universal Order of Armageddon
| Universal Order of Armageddon | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Emocore , Screamo , Post-Hardcore |
| founding | 1992 |
| resolution | 1994 |
| Last occupation | |
| Colin Seven | |
| Tonie Joy | |
| Scott Malat | |
| Brooks Headley | |
Universal Order of Armageddon was an influential emocore / screamo band from Baltimore , Maryland / USA in the early 1990s .
history
Although the band only existed for a short time, it was one of the most stylistic bands for what would later become so-called screamo bands.
It was founded in 1992 , with some of the band members being active in numerous other musical associations before and after the band. Tonie Joy , for example , who previously played with the emo pioneers Moss Icon as well as Universal Order of Armageddon and the hardcore punk band Born Against .
In 1993 , the band released the EP Symptom for the first time. After a split with Born Against in the same year, three more releases followed in 1994 before the band broke up. In 1996 the band's discography was published on a CD.
style
The band plays a harder, more experimental emo style that essentially ties in with the music of DC hardcore bands like Moss Icon . The group combines chaotic, sometimes extremely cacophonic and harmonious song parts with harder, straighter passages. Volume and speed change, as well as accusing singing and brute screams and screamed lines of text. The sound of the band should have a significant impact on the sound of later Screamo bands.
In a review of the 12 "record of the same name, which was released in 1994, it says metaphorically about the band:
“Distortion can be harnessed to multiple ends, from blissed-out hallucinatory filter to gruesome truncheon-to-the-senses means of abasement; just the same, the loud-fast tempo and standard distortion of punk rock can just as easily explode into a prism of meaning ”
Discography
EPs / splits
- Symptom, 7 " (1993)
- Split with Born Against , 7 " (1993, Gravity 5 Records )
- A History Of Compassion And Justice ?, 7 " (1994, Leguna Armada )
Albums / 12 "
- The Switch Is Down, 12 " (1994)
- Self-Titled, 12 " (1994, Gravity 12 Records)
- Discography, CD (1996)
Web links
- The band's unofficial site on MySpace
- The band on the Jade Tree Records label
- Review of the band's 12 "record of the same name
Individual evidence
- ^ Stylusmagazine.com. Retrieved March 2, 2008