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The End Of Silence (CD)

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Rollins Band Artist Snapshot:

After pioneering California hardcore band Black Flag broke up in 1986, singer Henry Rollins moved on to the Rollins Band, whose debut album, LIFE TIME was released the following year. The band's sound was more metal-influenced than Black Flag, and the combination of their heavy-hitting approach with Rollins' shout-singing style proved influential to '90s Nu Metal artists. While simultaneously maintaining an active spoken-word career, Rollins kept various lineups of the band going through 2003, reuniting briefly with the classic mid-'90s lineup in 2006.

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DISC 1 for The End Of Silence (CD) Album By Rollins Band (Artist)
1   Low Self Opinion
2   Grip
3   Tearing
4   You Didn't Need
5   Almost Real
6   Obscene
7   What Do You Do
8   Blues Jam
9   Another Life
10   Just Like You
 

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Review

Spin (4/92, p.90) - Highly Recommended - "..the best Rollins Band work to date, arguably Henry Rollins' career high... some of the first overtly technical punk rock that's neither clownish nor deliberatly slapdash.."

Title Note

Rollins Band: Henry Rollins (vocals); Chris Haskett (guitar); Andrew Weiss (bass); Sim Cain (drums); Theo Van Rock (sound effects).

Recorded at Showplace Studios, Dover, New Jersey.

There was quite a buzz circulating around the Rollins Band after their show-stopping performances on the inaugural Lollapooza tour of '91 (they had the dubious task of warming up the crowd in the sweltering afternoon heat). After several independently issued albums, the Rollins Band issued their first domestic effort, THE END OF SILENCE, in 1992. The band benefited from opening tour slots with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys, as well as from alternative rock's crossover to the mainstream. THE END OF SILENCE is one of the Rollins Band's strongest releases. "Low Self Opinion" was an MTV favorite, while other tracks such as "Grip," "Tearing," "You Didn't Need," and "Obscene" caught the band at their most fiercely rocking.

In early 1991, months before recording their breakthrough album, END OF SILENCE, the Rollins Band set up in a small studio and charged through new material with a ferocious intensity. Every song was recorded in one take, and the vocals were done on the spot. After sitting untouched for over 10 years, those tapes were released in 2004 as END OF SILENCE DEMOS.

The songs hold up remarkably well--"Low Self Opinion" and "Tearing," both of which became singles, marry Henry Rollins's dead-aim social critique to full-tilt sonic assault. On "Grip," which borders on progressive metal with its change-up rhythms and circular riffs, it is the band's musical chops that impress. What's particularly noteworthy about DEMOS, however, is how the fierce energy of the ensemble is captured in a relatively lo-fi manner. Though utterly listenable, DEMOS is miles removed from the high-end, compact sound of END OF SILENCE, and the experience hearkens back to the DIY ethos of punk. The disc is of interest, therefore, not only to fans of the band, but also to those keen on recapturing the homespun sound of early alternative rock.

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