Friday, 13 June 2008
Time In Malta
Artist: Time In Malta
Genre(s):
Punk
Discography:
Alone With the Alone
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
San Francisco's Time in Malta is an intense three-piece hard-core band that combines elements of melodic line, power, and heavy metallic element into a convincing, uplifting power plant akin to the works of Boy Sets Fire, Grade, and Shai Hulud instinct with frenzied scraunch and indie sensitiveness alike. The band formed in 1997 when transplanted Indianapolis natives Todd Gullion (bass/vocals, formerly of Burn It Down), Chris Lyon (guitarist and co-owner of Frentic Records), and Sander Leech (drums) met up in the Bay Area. The trio began writing songs, finally producing a demonstration at Toast Studios, which was submitted to several autonomous book labels. Impressed by their dynamic even so intense approach, Escape Artist Records snatched up the band and released their seven-song Construct & Demolish EP in July 1999. The band completed a short duty tour of the United States in support of the EP, appearance at several key hard-core festivals as well earlier subsidence in to compose corporeal for their first-class honours degree full-length record album. They paused briefly to render one new song dynasty and a cover of Threadbare's "In Effigy" to Escape Artist, which was released as the Identify, Persist, Transcend 7" single in belated 2000. In February of 2001, sometime Burn It Down singer Ryan Downey coupled the group, delegating Gullion to bass and financial support vocal duties. Time in Malta performed one and only express with this lineup, earlier Leech left field the band and was replaced by One Time Angels drummer Eric Alexander. Downey left field the group around the like time. Again a three-piece, Time in Malta recorded a three-song demonstration in July 2001 ahead part slipway with Alexander and request Leech to retort the band. They finally pulled in concert their first full-length album, A Second Engine, in the summertime of 2002 on Equal Vision Records. Alone with the Alone followed 2 age afterward.
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