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The United Sons of Toil
12+ albums
noise rockmath rockpost-hardcorepost-punkexperimental
about
All our music is downloadable for free at Bandcamp: http://music.unitedsonsoftoil.com The United Sons of Toil are a collective deeply rooted in the grinding noise and math rock that bubbled up from the Midwest during the mid ’90s. This is not to suggest that the Sons are a retro band in any sense, simply that the hoarse vocals, guitar damage, starts and stops, and sometimes-convoluted arrangements and time signatures hark back to a time when labels like Touch and Go, AmRep, and Dischord lorded over the indie-rock landscape. Recorded Output A number of other influences reared their ugly heads during the course of the first USoT record, 2007′s Hope Is Not A Strategy, notably the angular post-hardcore of outfits like Hoover and Unwound as well as the decidedly socialist bent of the sparse lyrics. Indeed, songs that compare family dynamics with political systems put the Sons squarely in the Gang-of-Four school of populist deconstruction. Within less than a year, the Sons released their second full-length on May 24, 2008. Until Lions Have Their Historians, Tales of the Hunt Shall Always Glorify the Hunter is even more unrelenting than Hope with faster, more ferocious, songs and vitriolic diatribes about the exploitation of indigenous peoples. Lions billows in scope with wiry post-punk screes giving way to more expansive compositions, eventually culminating in epic layered guitarscapes. With new a new drummer and a new-found indignation fueled by the reactionary political clima
top songs
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Alcoholism in the Former Soviet Republics
8562ILO Convention 169
6553The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla
6334Overturning the Rumford Fair Housing Act
6305The Shining Path
6036Sword of Damocles
5807The Contrition of the Addict
5368Operation Cast Lead
5299State-Sponsored Terrorism
50810The Treaty of New Echota
422albums
When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful
Until Lions Have Their Historians, Tales of the Hunt Shall Always Glorify the Hunter
Hope is not a strategy
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Lions
Karl Rove: Courage and Consequence
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The United Sons Of Toil/Lars Bang Larsen split 7"
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When The Revolution Comes, Eve
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United Sons Of Toil Vs. Lars Bang Larsen
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Forces Of Production: USoT Remixed
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20/A (20 Jahre Fidel Bastro)
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The Sacred Plague Is Dead / Long Live the Sacred Plague, Vol. 2 (2004-2011)
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Theory Of Everything