Infind was a hardcore/emo group from Staten Island. The band initially went as Dropjaw; played together live a few times but never formally released anything. In 1995 they eventually switched the name to Filter and changed bassists, recording an untitled demo tape.
After Filter they changed again to Carbon and finally settled on Infind (notice the 3rd track on the filter tape). Infind also had a 6 track demo cassette which they titled "Rolemodel", featuring one of the same tracks from the Filter tape.
The same year they released their only "official" record, the Absence 7".
They continued to play music together into 1997, here's a nice video of them playing in their friend's backyard in '96 or '97. And here's another great recording of their last show, featuring Kevin Devine as the third guitar and second vocalist! Kevin played with Infind for the last two or so years of the band, he had already been doing some stuff with Miracle of 86, and would continue that band after Infind broke up as well as his own solo music.
The Guys (left to right): Rob, James, Dave, Rico, Kevin
flyer from the show they had played, pretty sweet lineup
Infind got back together for a short time in 2006, adding keyboardist Joe Grado, but Dave would quit the band a little less than a year later. Instead of dropping the band, the fellas changed the band name (once again!) to Audiometry. Two years or so later Joe left the band and was succeeded by Andrew Struck-Marcell. They played a lot of local shows up until 2014, releasing one CD in 2013 which you can listen to on Spotify. There are some parallels to be drawn between them and Infind, but the sound is entirely instrumental and much more polished, I'm a big fan. Lots of youtube videos of them playing live/in session, this one's probably my favorite, two reworked Infind tracks and Agonist which appears on the CD.
My immense gratitude to Rob Marinelli for giving me so much info and the Audiometry CD! Thank you Rob, for the 100th time.
Listen to Audiometry on Spotify.
Download the Absence 7" here.
Rolemodel demo here.
Filter demo here.
Dropjaw rehearsal tape here.
Listen to Infind's last known recording ('96 or '97) on youtube:
(the cassette had some pretty bad audio glitches, tried my best to clean it up)
No comments:
Post a Comment