I Promised the World, A Static Lullaby, Rosasharin, et Guilt

A Static Lullaby might not have started their career in a particularly unusual manner - high school friends start jamming together, form band, quickly start playing shows - but when things rapidly began to gather pace for them in terms of their recorded output - their Withered EP, a home-produced affair, sold six thousand copied - they quickly found themselves in territory that was usually unchartered for bands of their age. Releasing their first record in 2002 - the furious ...And Don’t Forget to Breathe - allowed them the opportunity to tour extensively with the likes of AFI and My Chemical Romance, and once they finally got back off of the road, a contract with Columbia Records was waiting for them. The one album that they did release on that imprint, Faso Latido, was met pretty tamely by the critics, but the additional exposure that a major label budget afforded the band meant that they were suddenly bringing their brutal live show to much bigger crowds; one of their old party tricks was to incongruously throw a cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ into the mix at their gigs. Thereafter, they began to fall apart as the lineup seemed to be in constant shuffle mode, eventually disbanding in 2012; by doing so, they deprived the post-hardcore scene of one of its most exciting live propositions.