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A Tribute to As the Sun Sets

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Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Just as ex The Misfits vocalist Danzig will bluntly proclaim "i'm not in that fucking band anymore" is about as equalivant as Daughters feel about As the Sun Sets. Truth is you can't hit people with an offensive "buffalo Bill meets Jim Morrison" stage presence backed by biggest and spastic genre bending band of the time and expect fans to move on. So here they are for one more time; "As the Sun Sets, Provadince Rhode Island"

VIDEOS

Half Set. From Show in Florida...2001-2002

Live in Woodbridge Virginia Pt. 1

Live in Woodbridge Virginia Pt. 2

DISCOGRAPHY

Each Individual Voice Is Dead In The Silence
1999 - Trash Art, 2004 - City of Hell (Re-Issue)

01. Intro   01:17
02. Searching For A Reason to Carry On   02:13
03. From This Day Forward   01:45
04. Such Words Upon The Tongues of Demons   03:09
05. Unfulfilled Dreams Are a Burning Utopia   02:08
06. Carapatian   02:20
07. ..Shed for You and for Many   02:39
08. A Thousand Falling Skies   02:31
09. Everything   12:25

Each individual voice is dead in the silence" impacted the grind and metal scene tremendously.Captivating its audience with everchanging riffs and breaks.Not your typical "catch your attention and the songs done song", the songs were a good healthy time at least 2 minutes or so long for each one, and it was for anyone into grindcore, not boring.As some grind, metal or death bands play music and then the song seems to go too long.No, the songs on this cd are done just right.Long lasting, brutal and exactly what the listener wanted to hear.

Limited Summer Tour EP
2001 - Self Released

01. From This Day Forward
02. Feed the Scenesters to the Lions
03. Hay is For Horses
04. Girls Don't Talk to Him
05. We Must (Deliberately) Bring Him Down From There
06. Untitled

7744
2002 - Undecided Records

01. Hay Is for Horses   00:56
02. I Saw the Saturday Night Sky Over 195 Explode   00:42
03. I've Run Over Black Cats That Were Luckier Than Me   01:28
04. Noise Track   00:58
05. While Others Attend Chatrooms With Erections   01:02
06. Feed the Scenesters to the Lions   01:10
07. Untitled One   01:30
08. Untitled Two   00:32
09. Sweet Merciful Crap   00:42
10. Borderline Sarcasm   00:37
11. 77   02:37
12. 44 01:48

In early 2002, 7744 was released and the band suprised all its fans by a big musical change.Though, for anyone into really technical music, every song was a work of art.Every 5 seconds a new riff, crazy vocals with effects and the most intense 40 seconds you ever brought forth to your ears.

"The title of the record, "7744" was supposed to be the longitude and latitude of Providence, Rhode Island. The numbers "7744" were arbitrarily chosen to take place of the actual coordinates until they were found. No one involved seemed to want to find out the true numbers, and "7744" ended up just sticking." The artwork was done by Jeremy Wabiszczewicz.

8948
2002 - Trash Art

01. Your Beauty is a Car Wreck I do Concur   01:07
02. If I've Said it Once I've Said it a Thousand Times, Pyrotechnics, Pyrotechnics, Pyrotechnics   00:33
03. Remember When I Didn't Say What I Wanted to Say   00:38
04. Untitled Three   00:23
05. Black on Black and So Much Class   01:57

In 2002, right after the release of 7744, As The Sun Sets decided to depart, leaving its fans devasated.But for those yearning for more, they decided to put out one more cd entitled 8949, with the same sound and intensity as the previous album.This truly was one of the greatest bands to have existed.It will go down in the books as a great hard hitting band to anything heavy along the lines of good metal or grind.

Mastered by Steve Austin (Today is the Day)

PICTURES

As the Sun Sets had a 3 album spanding career with only 50 minutes of recorded music to their name. No wonder no one remembered to take pictures! As the bands death grows past the 5 year mark, collectively here the only pictures I could find of As the Sun Sets live: