Curse Of Years - 1998 Demo

Curse Of Years was a very brief band in the Baltimore spotlight, but I always felt something better could have come of them. This was the band that my friend Josh was in immediately before (or around the time of) joining Stout. The overall sound is nothing surprising for a 90's Baltimore band, very distinct shades of Gut Instinct, Breakdown, and Outburst ooze through every crack. The real treat of all of this is Josh's RAW, gruesome vocals, which is what drew me to them in the first place before I even knew he was in the band. I first heard of this entire ordeal via a comp called Belly Of The Beast that Josh put out, which had a COY song on it called "Days In Black". I was blown away by the band, and frantically asked around wondering who was responsible for this, not knowing at all he could sing like that!

According to the bio on their Myspace, the band basically self imploded from musical differences and lineup/musical taste changes. Josh went on to Stout, a reformed version of Harsh Truth (who I will post very soon), and even an instrumental prog/doom project known as Chowder (highly worth tracking down here). Guitarist Greg Clark ended up doing a doom project known as King Valley. Before their demise, the band mustered out this demo, the two BOTB comp tracks, a rendition of "Skinhead Youth" for the famous Raybeez tribute comp, and various rare practice and live tracks.

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