| Thoughts of Ionesco, as history tells it, is the essential Detroit hardcore band of the 90's. Curiously, the band did everything they could to extrapolate the hardcore sound, in turn creating some groundbreaking and gut-wrenching music.
On their final 1999 album "For Detroit, From Addiction," TOI delivered a hallucinatory hate-rock masterpiece with songs like "Learning an Enemy" and "The Scar is My Watermark." It showed the band's fascination with their rock forfathers The Stooges and the MC5.
However, some maintain the band was at its strongest during it's first release, "...And Then There Was Motion"; a machine-like assault that Alternative Press called "the ultimate realization of pain-through-sound."
Members have gone on to play in the Alkaline Trio and Leaving Rouge, but here, in the TOI cannon, one can find some of the most twisted and damaged heavy music ever played.
-- Shane Degalis, staff |
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