TRACKLIST

1) On the other Side
2) Scream Out
3) The End is Near
4) Weapons of Mass Decenption
5) You can never go Home
6) Dead Weight Falls
7) Force-Fed
8) Social Damage
9) Waste of Time
10) Hit and Run
11) We are all that we Have
12) Flames have Destroyed
13) Final Execution (Armageddon)
14) Paint it Black

ABOUT THE BAND

American street punk band that was formed in 1993 in Hingham, Massachusetts… One of the more prominent bands to revive street punk, they were originally called the Extinct.
The first incarnation of the band was formed in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1993 after Drummer Mark Civitarese, Bassist Tripp Underwood and guitarist Paul Morey parted ways with their original singer… In search of a replacement lead singer, local varsity hockey star Marc Carlson was recruited, the band played their first show at an event known as Hagapolozza, Morey soon lost interest in playing guitar and left the group not long after, Phil Reily was brought in as a replacement, but he was dismissed after a show at the Cape Cod hard rock club, the Approach, local guitarist Scott Hadyia was offered to join, after a few practices, he joined the group, the band soon recorded their first 7", called "Too Young to Know to Reckless to Care"… After the release of their 7", the band and Carlson parted ways… Not long after his dismissal, Paul Russo, a long-time friend of Tripp, started hanging around practices and he was asked to join the band, more shows followed, the band recorded and released two EP, called "Protect and Serve" and "Raise your finger, Raise your Fist", which were released within months of each other, the band began touring up and down the New England area… A year later the band released their first album, "Lower Class Crucifixion", after a few tours, Russo left the band to go play drums in Blanks 77, he was replaced by band roadie, Brian "Chainsaw" Reily… This lineup recorded a few songs that would end up on a split EP with Tom and Boot Boys, and two songs, "System’s Destruction" and "No Evacuation" on a compilation called "Sound of Rebellion"… After six months, Russo rejoined the band, keeping Chainsaw on as a singer/3rd Guitarist, after a tour with Anti-Flag, the band parted ways with Chainsaw… They then moved to Boston. Along with other street punk bands, they set out to revive the English street punk sound of the 1980s.
The quintet released a best-of compilation for the European market in June 2000 titled “Totally Unseen: The Best of the Unseen”, which contained two previously unreleased tracks.
The group's solid early line-up consisted of Tripp on bass guitar and vocals, Scott on lead guitar, Civitarese on drums and vocals and Paul Russo on second guitar and vocals as well as drums and bass guitar during live shows when the band switched instruments for certain songs... Most shows began with Russo and Tripp singing lead and ended with Russo playing drums and Civitarese singing lead... Russo went on to play in the Pinkerton Thugs as well as a solo project, called the Strings... He is currently playing in a punk band called Broken Stereo.
Mark Civitarese, who played drums on the band's first few albums, became the lead singer after Russo's departure… He also formed and runs ADD Records... He briefly joined the Boston punk group A Global Threat as a second singer and recorded the full-length albums “What The Fuck Will Change?” and “Until We Die”, before deciding to concentrate on his work with the Unseen… However, shortly after his departure he and Unseen guitarist Scott with Mike Graves and Peter Curtis formed Self Destruct… They released only one 7” EP entitled “Violent Affair” and played fewer than ten shows, but the musical style and lyrical content displayed on their one record had great influence on all Unseen music to follow, helping to shape their future sound with Civitarese as lead singer.
The band have toured Europe, North America, Australia, Japan and Mexico with other punk bands such as the Bouncing Souls and Rancid and decidedly more hardcore bands like Hatebreed and Sick of It All... Since the departure of Russo, the band has used many replacements on tour such as members of the Virus… However, recently on their MySpace page, they have included a fifth band member, Jonny Thayer, formerly a guitarist with A Global Threat, who was in the band at the same time as Civitarese.
In May 2006 they announced on their official website that they would begin writing their sixth full-length studio album during summer that year… The album titled “Internal Salvation” was released on July 10, 2007... In support of the album, the band joined the thirteenth Warped Tour in 2007 and launched a USA–Canada tour in March 2008.
The Unseen remained inactive until May 25, 2013, when they played at Punk Rock Bowling at the Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas… They have continued performing live sporadically since.

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