The Red Scare

The Red Scare were a four-piece post-hardcore/screamo band from Knoxville, Tennessee that formed in 1997 and broke up in 2001. They released two albums and a handful of splits, including one with Orchid. They played a chaotic yet technical blend of screamo/emo/hardcore, inspired by bands such as Portraits Of Past, Shotmaker, and Heroin. They incorporated these duelling guitars, driving bass riffs, and frenzied rhythms with some fantastic drumming, all the while the vocals are screaming to the brink of collapse. Capillary Lockdown is probably my favourite from them, and encapsulates the aforementioned sound. Their swan song, Strangers Die Everyday is a noticeably more experimental effort, with a wider array of dynamics and a metallic sheen to the instrumentals and production. It's still definitely worth a listen for the sake of uniqueness and intrigue, and really leaves you wondering where this band have gone had this not been in it. Highly recommended, enjoy.

Jet Set / Epiphany #2 (1998)

1. Jet Set

2. Epiphany #2

Hail Mary/The Red Scare (1999)

1. Hail Mary - Crcuifixate

2. The Red Scare - Earache

Pankration/The Red Scare (1999)

1. Pankration - Your Ugliness Becomes You

2. The Red Scare - Full Steam Ahead

Capillary Lockdown (1999)

1. Automate Insection

2. Device For Annihilation

3. Jetset

4. 12 Years Past

5. Post Meridian

6. Crushing Blows

7. Inertia/Distance To Empty

The Red Scare/Orchid (2000)

1. Orchid - Lucky 13

2. Orchid - Intelligable Audio

3. Orchid - She Has A Cold, Cold Heart

4. The Red Scare - Sequenced For Explosion

The Red Scare/True North (2001)

1. The Red Scare - Send Me An Angel

2. True North - It's 3 A.M., Do You Know Where The Ballot Box Is?

3. True North - Single Fin Mentality

Strangers Die Everyday (2001)

1. Risking Your Life With A Capital R

2. Smoky Mountain High

3. Strangers Die Everyday

4. Cranial Masses

5. Kodaliths

6. Asphyxial Eclipse

7. Iron Curtain

8. Five Months In Poland

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Sender Receiver

Sender Receiver are a four-piece grindcore band originally from Knoxville, Iowa that were around from 2006 to 2008. When they reformed in 2010, they had relocated to Detroit, Michigan. In their initial run, they released one EP, a split, and a sampler. There was word of new material being recorded after they reunited, but nothing ever came of it. Regardless, we're left with this minimal but noteworthy discography, with its crowning achivement being Plague Notes. It explores all the bombastic and chaotic aspects of extreme music that leaves a lasting impact in its 4 and half minute runtime, and doesn't need any more than that to do it. Highly recommended, enjoy!

Summer Sampler (2006)

1. The Human Torch Was Denied A Bank Loan

2. I Guess We Wont Starve As Long As We Have That Old Oak Tree

3. Shut Up, Incest Is Cute

Sender Receiver/The Muzzler (2007)

1. Sender Receiver - The Sudden Realization

2. Sender Receiver - Putting The Sensual Back In Non-Consensual

3. Sender Receiver - This Pillow Tastes Like I'm Choking

4. Sender Receiver - This Could Be The Very Reason Keith Richards Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Warfare

5. The Muzzler - The Loose Cannon

6. The Muzzler - Pass The Buck

Plague Notes (2007)

1. Putting The Sensual Back In Non-Consensual

2. This Pillow Tastes Like I'm Choking

3. The Ocean Is No Place For A Squirrel

4. The French Have To Unhinge Their Jaws To Express Emotion

5. This Could Be The Very Reason Keith Richards Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Warfare

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