8stops7

8stops7 came together in Ventura, California, in 1996, and they put some thought into that odd name: the 8 stands in for the infinity symbol, while seven stands for everything that hems you in, the days of the week, the years of bad luck, the plagues. As singer Evan Sula-Goff explained it, seven is the thing you want to escape and eight is the way out.

They made and released a debut, Birth Of A Cynic, entirely on their own, and in 1999 their manager steered them into a deal with Reprise. In Moderation followed with Toby Wright producing, a man with KoRn, Alice In Chains and Sevendust on his résumé, and it re-cut four songs from the first record. Sula-Goff sings lead and plays guitar, Seth Watson plays the other guitar, Alex Viveros holds down the bass and Adam Powell drums, with all three piling onto the backing vocals.

"Satisfied" and "Question Everything" run on late-'90s modern rock's crunch-and-release formula: coiled verses, choruses built for a whole room to shout back, guitars that come down like a slammed door. "Satisfied" got a second life on PlayStation, landing in Street Sk8er 2 and on the soundtrack of Gran Turismo 3.

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