Artist: Crumbsuckers: mp3 download Genre(s): Metal: Heavy Metal: Thrash Crumbsuckers's discography: Beast On My Back (B.O.M.B.) Year: 1988 Tracks: 9 Life Of Dreams Year: 1986 Tracks: 16 Like New York City generation such as Agnostic Front and the Cro-Mags, the Crumbsuckers were one of the original purveyors of 1980's crossing over: the bridging of metal and hard-core that temporarily joined the deuce divergent tribes of metalheads and punks into one and only, blinking, coordinated thrash pit. Getting their start in 1983, the band were before long an intact portion of New York's Lower East Side-based hard-core scene, cut their teeth at the legendary nose dive A7 before moving on to CBGB's notable Sunday matinees, as they and the movement gained strength. Come 1986, the Crumbsuckers consisted of vocalizer Chris Notaro (ex-Krackdown), guitarists Dave Wynn and Chuck Lenihan, bassist Gary Meskil and drummer Dan Richardson, and delivered their Life of Dreams debut into a peeking crossover furore. A satisfying if preferably conventional dependable example of the literary genre, Life of Dreams featured a paries of razor-sharp thresh guitars, manic drum-work, and punk-grown social and political criticism, culminating in the standout "Super Tuesday," which criticizes the 1984 presidential election. Unfortunately, the Crumbsuckers would shortly fall fouled of their fans (as did Agnostic Front, around the same clock metre) by delving too deep in heavy alloy with their 1988 sophomore liberation Beast on My Back (a.k.a. "B.O.M.B."), featuring shred-happy new guitar player Robert Koebler. This effort, with its longer songs and conspicuous metallic overkill, combat injury up alienating virtually of their longtime hard-core followers and the dance orchestra was honestly dead on comer by the prison house term they shoot the road with yet some other novel guitarist in previous Carnivore Marc Piovanetti. In the closing, even more than their hit-and-miss albums, the Crumbsuckers' permanent legacy may considerably ingest been the numerous bands which subsequently sprung up from their ruination. Meskil and Richardson went on to be post-hardcore metallers Pro-Pain, and the latter eventually likewise did time with Life of Agony and Stereomud, piece Lenihan landed with S&M crew the Genitorturers, a few geezerhood afterwards. |