10 Bands That Broke Up Way Too Soon

Some bands outline a subgenre, then rule that scene for many years. Others pioneer a mode of music, then break up earlier than the scene catches on.

These extremely influential bands did not all obtain their second within the solar, however their work has confirmed to be unforgettable. Do you agree that these bands broke up method too quickly?

Kyuss was like a vivarium for proficient motherfuckers. In simply 4 years, the desert rock stoners launched 4 underground basic albums, together with the chronically superior Blues for the Crimson Solar. Actually one of many best guitar tones ever caught on tape, by the best way. With out the dissolution of Kyuss in 1995 we’d by no means have gotten Queens of the Stone Age, however the California band broke up proper earlier than the stoner steel revival of the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Think about attending to see Kyuss tour with Electrical Wizard throughout their Dopethrone period. 

Siege’s affect on the hardcore, grindcore and powerviolence scenes is gigantic to say the least. Not till the preliminary wave of metalcore was Massachusetts such a primordial ooze for aggressive brilliance. The Kevin Mahoney period of Siege solely lasted from 1981-1985… there have been some small reunions with completely different singers (together with Seth Putnam) however nothing too notable. Forty years after Drop Lifeless was launched, it stays an undisputed underground basic. It appears like this band may’ve made a lot nice music in the event that they’d survived previous the mid-80s. 

Few bands that shaped within the 2010s have a cult following like Glass Cloud. Masters of catchy, djenty metalcore, Glass Cloud have been about 10 years forward of their time with their sole full-length, The Royal Thousand. Little question they’d be on high of the melodic metalcore world in the event that they’d stayed collectively, rubbing elbows with Spiritbox and Dangerous Omens. Come dwelling, boys.

You may’t actually complain in regards to the dissolution of Hellhammer in 1984, as a result of we obtained Celtic Frost and Triptykon out of it. You may hear why Hellhammer wasn’t broadly appreciated of their day — too punky and uncooked for heavy steel followers and too heavy steel for punk and hardcore followers. Hellhammer’s proto-black steel has stood the check of time, although. How a few fortieth anniversary gig for Apocalyptic Raids?

How do you pioneer deathcore then fuck off endlessly? The members of Deadwater Drowning, which existed from 2002-2004, ended up becoming a member of bands like The Acacia Pressure and The Crimson Chord, however Deadwater Drowning’s one EP proved simply as influential within the New England scene. You may solely think about this band’s shine in the event that they’d recorded greater than 5 songs. 

This needs to be the height of death-doom, proper? The ambiance of diSEMBOWELMENT’s Transcendence Into the Peripheral merely supersedes Katatonia’s Courageous Homicide Day and even Paradise Misplaced’s Misplaced Paradise. You simply gained’t discover an early death-doom album that’s extra completely in-the-pocket. How this short-lived ’90s band got here from Australia is an absolute thriller. 

Was Beecher’s model too fluid to outline a scene? England’s reply to New England’s metalcore scene, Beecher introduced a way of post-hardcore to mathcore and metalcore that didn’t correctly flourish till years after they launched 2003’s Breaking the Fourth Wall. The mathy band was seemingly one step away from Protest the Hero’s Fortress or Each Time I Die’s New Junk Aesthetic, however went in a extra Dillinger route with 2005’s This Elegy, His Post-mortem. Come 2006, they have been dunzo. 

A pioneer within the New Wave of British Heavy Metallic, A II Z solely launch one album… and it’s a dwell album. That’s proper, they made a dwell album earlier than hitting the fucking studio. Makes completely no sense, however The Witch of Berkeley is fairly superior anyway. It’s obtained sufficient Motörhead angle and basic rock grooves to maintain the heavy steel fan satiated, and a few actually epic bass work from Cam Campbell. They broke up in 1982, lengthy earlier than pc keyboards revealed how annoying their band identify is to kind!

Arch Enemy is nice and all, however Carnage is simply so filthy and gross. Fashioned by Michael Amott and Johan Liiva, Carnage sounds far more like Dismember than Arch Enemy, however with that good Swedish Boss pedal tone. Carnage made one killer full-length, Darkish Recollections, which principally got here out proper when the band broke up within the early ‘90s. It’d be epic to listen to this album dwell, however don’t depend on it.

This Finnish export was the one band loopy sufficient to make funeral doom that feels like The Doorways. Stream From the Heavens is without doubt one of the most inexplicable steel albums ever, and so unpredictable for a funeral doom document. The combo between gargling gutturals, clear chants, ‘60s keyboards, sloth-peddled riffs and cosmic background noise is simply so bizarre. This band solely existed from 1990-1993, however they’d probably be as large as Skepticism in the event that they’d caught round.