Life Of Agony

01. Life Of Agony - River Runs Red, 1993 CD Album      Roadrunner Records - RR 9043-5      Reissue from 1994 02. Life Of Agony - This Time, 1994 CD Single      Roadrunner Records - RR 2373-3 03. Life Of Agony - Ugly, 1995 CD Album      Roadrunner Records, Roadrunner Records, Roadrunner Records - RR 8924-9, RR 8924 2, 7 8924-9 04. Life Of Agony - Soul Searching Sun, 1997 CD Album      Roadrunner Records - RR 8816-2 05. Life Of Agony - Unplugged At The Lowlands Festival '97, 2000 CD Album      Roadrunner Records, Roadrunner Records - RR 8518-2, 8085182RR 06. Life Of Agony - River Runs Again - Live 2003, 2003 CD Album x 2      Steamhammer - SPV 089-69422 DCD , Compilation      Contains 21 songs by: Among Thieves, Life Of Agony, Keith Caputo, Supermassiv 07. Life Of Agony - River Runs Again - Live 2003, 2003 CD Album x 2      Steamhammer - SPV 089-69422 DCD , Compilation      Contains 21 songs by: Among Thieves, Life Of Agony, Keith Caputo, Supermassiv 08. Life Of Agony - Broken Valley, 2005 CD Album      Epic, Epic, Epic - 520100 2, EPC 520100 2, 5201002000 09. Life Of Agony - 20 Years Strong - River Runs Red : Live In Brussels, 2010 CD Album, DVD DVD-Video      I Scream Records - 88.780.08 10. Life Of Agony - A Place Where There's No More Pain, 2017 CD Album      Napalm Records - NPR 659 JC 1993! Honeymoon in NYC. We are pissed because the week before our arrival and the week after our departure feature several amazing shows. On the noise-meter, our week is just dull. We end-up agonizing in a three hours lineup at CBGB to enter a super-packed Rollins gig. And it was so hot we did not even stay until the end. Catching a flyer for the album release party of a band called Life Of Agony, we decide to try that. And we are floored! Amazing show in a recycled church! The next morning, straight to the nearest record shop to get the CD. Masterpiece of super-addictive metallic & melodic crossover of the Leeway | Cro-Mags family, only enlarged! I was so hooked that the year after I got this digi with bonus live tracks. Few alums float higher in the zeriverse than River Runs Red. The following albums are less exciting. Ugly is very good, Broken Valley is totally great, even if both albums are not as heavy and dark as River. Although it features the drummer from the Crumbsuckers, Soul is disappointingly alt-rock, almost pop like a Stone Temple Pilot thing, only lighter (yes it is possible). The live unplugged is useless (I only like unplugged stuff when it is Terveet Kädet). The other live CDs are great. And... the new album is underwhelming. I expected more mass, more solid matter, more visceral hooks. Too much happiness? In my ranking, Broken Valley is superior. But let that not distract us from the triplazer running red! Remove brackets and unzip: [saturday] !ZER Life Of Agony ZER!

Life Of Agony

demos, 1989/1999 River Runs Red (digi edition w/4 live bonus), 1993 This Time MCD, 1994 Ugly (metal tin edition w/2 bonus), 1995 Soul Searching Sun, 1997 Unplugged At The Lowlands Festival, 1997 River Runs Again - Live - CD 1, 2003 River Runs Again - Live - CD 2, 2003 Broken Valley, 2005 20 Years Strong - River Runs Red : Live In Brussels, 2010 The year was 1993 and we were honeymooning with Marielle in NYC, desperate for a good show. There were great shows before and after but not during out stay, so we easily got talked into going to see this band unknown to us, Life of Agony, by a guy in a record store: he told us they had the Type O Negative drummer (from the two master superior very best very zerrrrrest albums Slow, Deep and Hard and Bloody Kisses), we could not resist. So we attended what was the launch party (in a Manhattan church) of River Runs Red (produced by Josh Silver of Type O Negative... ach, a family affair) and to this day it is one of the very best shows we ever saw, ever. It was just too amazing to be true! And so is the CD: heavy, intense, melodic and dark to the level of Candlemass, River Runs Red has remained on the top of the EZTT. This is some CLASSIC AWESOME metal here! And I mean true 90s metal inherited from the Best Wishes / Alpha Omega era of the Cro-Mags, not some fucking shoot-me-in-the-knee-nu-metal. If new to L.O.A., River Runs Red is mandatory, then the excellent follow up Ugly, then the live stuff and the great 2005 comeback album Broken Valley, a depressing piece of heavy rock. You may forget the demos (average NYHC) and the Soul Searching Sun unzer thing that features the singer from Ugly Kid Joe - not terrible, but much weaker/radio oriented than expected. Factoids: the guitarist was in the 2007 reunion of Carnivore, and the singer is now a lady (yes, like the bass player from Cretin). RIVER RUNS ZERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!R!R!RR!R!R! RrrrRR!RR! R!R !RRr R! !R !RRr R! R! rRr RrrrRR RR! !R !R! R R! !R!RRR RRrrrr R!R! R!RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !R! R! rr! !R R!R!RR! R!R!R!R!RR!R!R !RR ! !! ! ! ! ! CD rip. Life Of Agony website with tons of videos + links to buy CDs & merch! L.O.A. on MySpace