The End of Silence by Rollins Band

The End of Silence, the third studio album from the Rollins Band, came out on Imago in February 1992, and it's the one that finally dragged former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins out of the underground. After a run of records that stayed below the radar, this was the band's first to reach the Billboard 200, with Andy Wallace producing and Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain alongside Rollins in the lineup.

The sound is a grinding, muscle-bound fusion of funk, post-punk, noise and jazz, heavy enough to file under alternative metal, while Rollins bellows raw self-examination and accusation over the top like a man with a grudge against his own reflection. "Low Self Opinion" was the breakout, a single that went big on MTV and made the band's name. Weight followed.

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