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Dead At 24
8+ albums
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Dead at 24 blazed a unique and noisy path through the post industrial wasteland of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1990’s. Standing in opposition to the post Don Cabellero math rock musical environment that prevailed in the city at the time, their performances left audiences scratching their heads in confusion and vacating venues in horror. “Let’s get the fuck out of here!” was a common reaction of those who witnessed one of the band’s live shows cum spontaneous combustions. No one was prepared for what they were seeing in Dead at 24, and that’s because they were being given a glimpse into the future. Dead at 24 were the inadvertent pioneers of what would become a thriving underground “weird punk” scene twelve years later. What makes them truly exceptional, though, is the fact that their songs and style persist as standouts years after their intended relevance. Beneath the saturated mid fi recording, dissonant guitars and wailing synths that are their “sound”, there was an attention to crafting off handed hooks and a musical fight for space between players that almost no band before or since has been able to match. Dead at 24 released two cassettes and appeared on a Pittsburgh band compilation 7” during their existence but disbanded before they could release anything of their own on vinyl. In late 2008, two ex Pittsburghers met at a club in Boston and started discussing their favorite local bands of the 90s. The guys shared not only a mutual love for Dead at 24 but al
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