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Offering as lead singer for the vintage NY hardcore clothing the Cro-Mags and roadie for the legendary Poor Brains, Both Worlds vocalist John Joseph offers quite an extraordinary resumé to his credit. Prior to the 1998 launch of the debut full-length, the music group (which also contains guitarist A.J. Novello, …

Inspired from the lurching riffs of Helmet as well as the soft-loud vocal dynamics of Instrument, Chicago-based trio Chevelle created in 1995 with an aggressive, heavy sound. Composed of brothers Sam (drums), Pete (vocals, acoustic guitar), and Joe Loeffler (bass), the music group began playing celebrations and outdoor occasions, which …

Two years following the Dutch cult music group Xymox disintegrated carrying out a 1992 tour of America, vocalist/guitarist Frank Weyzig and drummer Willem Van Antwerpen formed Given birth to for Bliss with Remco Helbers (from the Dreamside). The trio authorized to Nuclear Blast by 1996, and released their debut recording …

Another addition to the plethora of ‘large yet melodic’ rock and roll bands that surfaced in the first twenty-first hundred years, the Atlanta, Georgia, USA-based trio, Injected, was formed by Danny Grady (vocals, guitar), Steve Slovisky (bass), and Chris Wojtal (drums). All three users had played collectively intermittently in regional …

Among the unlikeliest achievement stories in rock and roll on the convert of the millennium, Detroit rap-rocker Child Rock and roll shot to superstardom along with his fourth full-length record, 1998’s Devil With out a Trigger. What managed to get so surprising was that Rock and roll acquired recorded his …

Shaped in 1998, the Cleveland, Ohio-based hardcore sextet Chimaira includes singer/screamer Tag Hunter, guitarists Matt DeVries (who changed Jason Hager in mid-2001) and Rob Arnold, bassist Jim LaMarca, drummer Andols Herrick, and electronic specialist Chris Spicuzza. The band’s combination of hardcore, metallic, and electronics became a big strike back home, …

Bivouac first had become in the first ’90s in Western Yorkshire, Britain. The music group was comprised of vocalist/guitarist Paul Yeadon, bassist Granville Marsden, and drummer Keith York. Their previously efforts sounded a little like Teenage Fanclub or Superchunk making use of their solid melodies and noisy guitars; actually, that …

THE BRAND NEW Jersey-based Latin metal sextet Ill Nino includes members Cristian Machado (vocals), Dave Chavarri (drums), Marc Rizzo (guitars), Jardel Paisante (guitars), Lazaro Pina (bass), and Roger Vasquez (percussion). The majority of its users are of South American descent, producing a kind of music that combines crunchy rock with …

Because the scion of the well-heeled rock icon and his clever supervisor wife, Kelly Osbourne’s superstar was maybe inevitable. Still, it had been a curious mixture of bizarre fact TV success, skill for performance, standard teenage petulance, along with a flair for Courtney Love-like self-promotion that eventually posited Kelly completely …

Iron Monkey formed in Nottingham, Britain, in 1994, intending “to irritate as many folks as you possibly can,” based on bass participant Doug Dalziel. That could have worked for some time, but ultimately the band experienced to cope with the actual fact that a number of people actually loved what …