[shiny grey monotone]: unsane: 1988

as most of you have probably heard: unsane is no more. chris spencer has chosen to follow another musical path that goes by the name of human impact with 2 ex-members of (the) swans. but the band has split up before and gotten back together (and thus was born the bands: the cutthroats 9 and j.j. paradise players club) so who knows.

i'm not going to go off into my usual storyteller mode because it would just be preaching to the choir. though i'll mention that the first anything i'd heard from unsane (outside of seeing the video for "scrape") was their OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD album. and then there was the time that i'd actually convinced someone that they were a new nu metal band and that they needed to snag up the only unsane album the music store that was in the town i was living in at the time had before someone else did (it was their TOTAL DESTRUCTION album and they knew that it was going to be hardcore because the store's manager had them tape pieces of a brown paper bag over the middle of the front and back cover.)

good times.

so anytime you're out and about and you see a red stain on a cinder block or you're in a waffle house and you're thinking about those hash browns or you're taking that shortcut through the train yard after work and you happen to come across a human body sans head (no. just keep walking. i don't care if he's not going to be finishing that bucket of chicken. just keep walking. people already think you're weird enough as it is. do you want to go through the rest of your life being known as the guy that ate the headless corpse's chicken? i didn't think so.) just think about all of the happy times you've had with unsane.

and now this....