Location: Salt Lake City, USA
Release: Flatline Records, 1991
Age Of Quarantine, day # 142 - In my perception, most of USA's harcore productions in the early 90's were deeply influenced by bands that helped define the post-hardcore sound, blending elements of melodic punk, indie rock and hardcore (a style that later culminated on the "creation" of Emo). Such bands were Verbal Assault, Fugazi, Supertouch and Quicksand.
So this was the musical environment in which Utah's SEARCH and many others groups developed their sound in the first half of 1990. Although it was very short-lived this band was the starting point for other 2 more known bands that eventually became Revelation Records alumni, ICEBURN and State Of The Nation. Speaking of Revelation this has nothing to do with the New Jersey unit, just a bad name choice lol (terrible to look up online)!
Since it's indeed quite impossible to find stuff under this band name I only found out about this 3-song EP Within, the first track being the best one, and that's probably everything they did, it would be interesting to hear a full-length by these dudes tho.
A continous look on the FLATLINE RECORDS catalog reveals other cool stuff from that era and more about what was happening in the Salt Lake City scene, home of INSIGHT. With a very similar sound to SEARCH, both BRAINSTORM and WATERFRONT also put out just one record out each, the same goes for REALITY but they played a more "regular" hardcore.
For last we have THE STENCH, a group that have a certain following with even a documentary out. The singer (Terrance D.H.) later went to front another underground cult band called BAD YODELERS which is one of the weirdest bands you will ever hear under the spectrum of Hardcore Punk that is NOT wack, as their music range from Scott Reynold's (Pavers, ALL, Goodbye Harry) melodic punk style to shredding crossover/thrash metal and back to mellow post-punk.
DOWNLOAD I contains:
SEARCH - Whitin 7" (Flatline Records, 1991)
BRAINSTORM - Let Me Forget EP (Flatline Records, 1991)
REALITY- Something Hurts EP (Flatline Records, 1992)
WATERFRONT - Confusing The Truth EP (Flatline Records, 1992)
DOWNLOAD II contains:
THE STENCH - Crazy Moon CD (Flatline Records, 1989 - REISSUE 1996)
THE STENCH - Four Before EP (Flatline Records, 1991)
BAD YODELERS - 1984-1986 EP (Self-released, 1990)
BAD YODELERS - I Wonder... LP (Running Records, 1990)
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