Ampere

Ampere are a four-piece screamo/hardcore punk band from Amherst, Massachusetts that began in 2002 and continue to play today. Many of the members played in other notable bands, the biggest of these being the legendary Orchid, which featured guitarist Will Killingsworth (who's a prominent figure in the screamo scene for running Dead Air studios as well). Other bands members were in include Bucket Full Of Teeth, Montcalm, Wolves, and The Last 40 Seconds, among others.

Ampere themselves are quite the noteworthy band in terms of influence and importance within the genre (I kind of think as them as being second tier essential screamo, with first tier being Orchid, pg.99, Saetia, Jeromes Dream, etc.). They play a style similar to that of Orchid in that the music is chaotic as fuck, and features lyrics and ideologies that can be considered "intellectual". They also like to keep things short, especially Ampere. Most of their songs don't even clock in at a full minute, and their longest songs don't even hit two and a half minutes in length. Their live sets are also short, but blisteringly intense, as is their material on record. They've managed to keep fairly busy in their decade of existence, especially considered the fact that operate under rigid DIY ethos, and they don't have a revolving door of line-up changes (it's been the same four people for their entire tenure). So, yeah, enjoy, as I'm sure you will. These guys are legends. If you are starting out with this band, go for All Tomorrows End Today, the Sinaloa split, The First Five Years, and Like Shadows, you'll practically have their entire discography. Though they seemed to have a tendency to put out great splits with other amazing bands, so I'd highly suggest going for those too.

Demo 7" (2002)

1. Thanks For Teaching Me The Things I Would Rather Not Have Learned

2. Up The Contrast

3. Shaking Hands And Made-Up Minds

4. A Letter To A Friend

5. I Never Really Missed It Until It Was Gone For Good

6. There Is No Miracle Here

Wolves/Ampere (2003)

1. Wolves - 10

2. Wolves - 11

3. Ampere - My Favorite Movie

4. Ampere - What It's Like To Fly

5. Ampere - A New Dialect

6. Ampere - A Letter To A Friend

7. Ampere - Things I'd Rather Not Have Learned

All Our Tomorrows End Today (2004)

1. Remain Unadapted

2. Now We Rise, & We Are Everywhere

3. The Jailors Speak Of Freedom

4. Woodlawn

5. Our Adventures Incomplete

6. New Urbanism

7. The Old World Is Behind Us

8. Against Automation

9. Dover & Grove

10. Past Imperfect

11. In Memoriam

Ampere/Welcome The Plague Year (2005)

1. Ampere - Away From The Bright Lights/Your Still Life

2. Welcome The Plague Year - You Are My Economic Rival And I  Hate You

Live At Dead Air: Death To Tyrants/Ampere/Daniel Striped Tiger/Wasteland (2006)

1. Death To Tyrants - Presence

2. Death To Tyrants - Exposition 9: Female

3. Ampere - Burned Out And Hollow

4. Ampere - What It's Like To Fly

5. Ampere - At Its Heart And At Its Head

6. Ampere - We Bite

7. Ampere - Your Still Life 

8. Daniel Striped Tiger - Passed Out On Passion

9. Daniel Striiped Tiger - Think About Carbs

10. Daniel Striped Tiger - Dawn Flared Into

11. Wasteland - Marching As To War

12. Wasteland - Fading Light

Das Oath/Ampere (2006)

1. Das Oath - The Living End (The Jesus And Mary Chain)

2. Das Oath - Tourettes (Nirvana)

3. Das Oath - Wardance (Killing Joke)

4. Das Oath - Feel Like A Man (Negative FX)

5. Ampere - Bit Part In A Bad Movie (Born Against)

6. Ampere - Money Stinks (D.R.I.)

7. Ampere - Conspiring The Go-Go (Antioch Arrow)

8. Ampere - The Regulator (Bad Brains)

9. Ampere - Mr. Suit (Wire)

Ampere/Sinaloa (2006)

1. Ampere - New Forms

2. Ampere - At Its Heart & At Its Head

3. Ampere - Wormwood, Radiation

4. Ampere - Our Exit Strategy

5. Ampere - Burned Out & Hollow

6. Ampere - We Live Like Lost Children

7. Ampere - In Antiquity

8. Sinaloa - The Earth Is On Fire

9. Sinaloa - Tongue To Teeth

10. Sinaloa - I'm Getting Tired

11. Sinaloa - Teeth To Tongue

12. Sinaloa - Expect Delays

Ampere/Daïtro (2007)

1. Ampere - Escapism

2. Ampere - Diffident Dissonance

3. Daïtro - La Substance Et La Matiere

Ampere/Funeral Diner (2007)

1. Ampere - Secret Hallways/Sleepwalkers

2. Funeral Diner - I Was The Sword

Ringers/Ampere (2007)

1. Ringers - Dialtones

2. Ampere - Abject Failure

Off Minor/Ampere (2008)

1. Off Minor - Abattoir

2. Ampere - Conquest Success

The First Five Years (2008)

1. Escapism

2. Diffident Dissonance

3. Conquest Success

4. Abject Failure

5. Dead Weight

6. Secret Hallways

7. Sleepwalkers

8. Away From The Bright Lights

9. Your Still Life

10. My Favorite Movie

11. What It's Like To Fly

12. A New Dialect

13. A Letter To A Friend

14. Things I'd Rather Not Have Learned

15. Things I'd Rather Not Have Learned

16. Up The Contrast

17. My Hands Are Shaking My Mind Is Made Up

18. A Letter To A Friend

19. I Don't Need It Anyways

20. No Miracle Here

21. Bit Part In A Bad Movie (Born Against)

22. Money Stinks (DRI)

23. Conspiring The Go-Go (Antioch Arrow)

24. The Regulator (Bad Brains)

25. Mr. Suit (Wire)

26. Live 1

27. Live 2

28. Live 3

29. Live 4

30. Live 5

Like Shadows (2011)

1. (We're) Stranded

2. Escapism Pt. II

3. Centuries Fled

4. Of Nightmare Reality

5. Bullshit Sloganeering

6. Chasing Ghosts

7. The Submerged Tenth

8. Statement Of Capitulation

9. We Neither Rise Nor Fall

10. Maps, Legends

11. Dead Weight

12. Flightless

13. For Automation

14. Terminally

15. Tiny Victories

Ampere/Raein (2015)

1. Raein - Comete

2. Raein - Spaccare Il Mondo

3. Ampere - Parallels

4. Ampere - Holding Pattern

5. Ampere - On Form & Function