Pitchblende

Artwork punk quartet Pitchblende emerged in March 1991 in the same thriving metropolitan Washington, D.C., unbiased music scene house towards the Dischord/TeenBeat/Basic Machines axis. Performers/guitarists Justin Chearno (a onetime person in Unrest as well as the Dustdevils) and Treiops Treyfid initial met while functioning at an area bookstore, and produced their first recordings being a duo, aided by way of a drum machine; after putting an advertisement within the Washington Town Paper, they recruited bassist Scott DeSimon and drummer Patrick Gough, shortly producing their live debut beneath the name Comet Anger. As Pitchblende, the quartet documented a ten-song demonstration tape that summer months, and in early 1992 released their debut one, “Amount,” over the Landspeed label, shifting to Jade Tree later on that year release a the EP Weed Slam. Their full-length debut, Destroy Atom Smasher, adopted on Cargo within the springtime of 1993, and Pitchblende toured the U.S. relentlessly within the months to check out, liberating their sophomore work, Au Jus, in 1994. Early another winter season, Chearno relocated to NEW YORK; when DeSimon adopted a few weeks later on, the group continued hiatus, even though foursome continued operating intermittently on the third LP, GYGAX! (therefore named honoring the creator from the role-playing video game Dungeons & Dragons). Pitchblende officially dissolved following a album’s launch; Chearno and DeSimon later on reunited in Turing Machine.