Thoughts of Ionesco

Documenting their first record when two-thirds from the bandmembers had been still in senior high school and splitting up when most had been barely 21 years of age, it’s a question that this infamous Detroit clothing Thoughts of Ionesco even lasted the couple of years that they do. Confrontational to viewers, bored with record brands, exceedingly dark and large, the band performed music that was once described by Choice Press mag as “the best realization of pain-through-sound.” Developing in 1996, the hardcore, art-damaged spirit of TOI materialized around vocalist/guitarist Sean Hoen, bassist Nathan Miller, and drummer Brian Repa; the music group also included a sax participant by the finish of its profession. Repa still left and returned many times through the band’s lifetime, and Derek Offer (ex-Suicide Devices, Alkaline Trio) offered as his alternative to a stretch out from 1997-1998. The trio, whose collective mental balance was categorised as into issue by also those near them, was frequently in comparison to My War-era Dark Flag, blending hatred and aggression with super-heavy riffs, free of charge jazz exploration, a brutal live display, and hefty dosages of nihilism, self-loathing, and natural masochistic rage to make a sound wholly complicated and frequently misinterpreted. Thoughts of Ionesco had been in a course of their very own; their performances had been notoriously damaging — instruments had been smashed in a few minutes, walls had been kicked in, bloodstream was shed, containers had been tossed — as the bandmembers demonstrated absolutely no consider for themselves or the “supporters” they couldn’t end up being bothered to value. For them, just the music mattered. They toured the united states and Canada several times over, especially using their close friends in Wallside, but because of the inaccessibility of their information, they continued to be obscure (though rather revered) upon their eventual implosion in 1999. Thoughts of Ionesco performed their last present that November in Ann Arbor, MI. Many years later, the people reappeared in the Detroit music picture with new rings: Hoen in the Holy Fireplace and Departing Rouge, Miller in the Holy Fireplace, and Repa with Heaven. Seventh Rule ultimately gathered the band’s documented result — including produces on Makoto (1996’s The Triptych Program, 1997’s …AND There Was Movement, 1998’s A Epidermis Historic, the final which SPIN called “an art-core mindfuck”) with Hands Mechanic (1999’s For Detroit, from Addiction, released 2001) — in to the compilation The Scar tissue Is Our Watermark. Issued in June 2006, the recording also included an added bonus in-depth documentary Dvd and blu-ray that chronicled the band’s short, volatile profession with live video footage and interviews.