Only Living Witness
Only Living Witness was an American hardcore punk and metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, which was founded in 1989 and disbanded in 1995.
History
The band was founded in 1989 after the breakup of the band Formicide and consisted of vocalist Jonah Jenkins, guitarist Kevin Stevenson, bassist Roy Costa and drummer Eric Stevenson. Singer Jenkins explained the band name by saying that he is allegedly the only living witness who had witnessed the early appearances of Slapshot. After two demos and a self-financed single, the band reached a deal with Century Media. As new members were now the guitarist Craig Silverman and bassist Chris Crowley in the band. In the label 's debut album was released in 1993 Prone Mortal form. It was followed by appearances in the U.S. opening for Prong and Corrosion of Conformity and in Europe along with Mucky Pup. In September, a tour opening for Cro -Mags joined. About six months later, another tour with a total of 19 performances in Germany, Austria and Switzerland was completed along with Leeway. In addition, the band also played along with Sick of it All. In 1996 the second album Innocents. The band had already disbanded in October 1995, as she was the one commercially less successful and, secondly, drummer Stevenson, who wrote the majority of the songs, no longer wanted to go on tour. The latter also led to personal quarrel of the two band columns, whereupon Jenkins completely withdrew from the music, backed by his day job as a librarian in the Harvard Library.
Style
Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic described the music on the Demo Only Living Witness and Complex Man as a mixture of thrash metal and hardcore punk. On Prone Mortal form not only of pure hardcore punk was included: The guitar riffs are the metal, which beats the Industrial and the vocals borrowed from grunge. Similarly, Barbara Diekmann saw in the sub line the classification, namely between the Cro -Mags Hardcore and the grunge of Alice in Chains. Markus Kavka from Metal Hammer Innocents compared with Ugly by Life of Agony and Deliverance by Corrosion of Conformity. The album was " full of chubby monster riffs, wailing vocals gniedelig, dry rock rhythms ". In the song Placid Hill also had instruments such as acoustic guitar, a violin and a harmonica heard. Utterly boring place Hanno Kress from the Rock Hard work and complained that the neo-folk ballad Hank Crane " have doctored equal to eight people."