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The Taste Of Silver
12+ albums
grindcorescreamomathcoreemo violenceexperimental
about
The Taste of Silver was formed in January of 2004 after the breakup of guitarist Faust Agin Eddie's prior short-lived Boston-based arena rock band Motion Sickness. The band began with Eddie and Alex Carrara of Devil In The Kitchen. Shortly thereafter, vocalist Rowan Curran joined the group, originally intending to play bass but moving instantly to vocals citing a lack of any instrument proficiency. All three had known each other from a mixture of friends while attending Arlington High School in Arlington, MA. TTOS intended sound was to be similar to a mix of Maryland's Swarm of the Lotus and Oakland's Dystopia, but rapidly moved on to borrow from such 90's angular-hardcore artists as Reversal of Man and Saetia, and more technical math-core bands like Botch. Extensive touring and premature recordings led to the band quickly gathering much notoriety, and soon would influence a style of grind mixed with melody that some would refer to as "melodigrind". Most notable in smaller towns outside bigger cities, the band was consistently on the go, rarely stopping back home to write new material. They took pride in their suburban background, leading to an article written about them in their town paper The Arlington Advocate. Numerous "leaked" practice recordings would float around via the internet and burned cds. Often "final" versions were released gradually and without mixing or any formal format. The plague of constant - but usually misleading or false - invitations for vinyl pro
