Vendetta Red

Vendetta Red came roaring out of Seattle in 1998, a band that took the city's heavy guitar inheritance and wired it to the screamed, heart-on-fire intensity of post-hardcore and emo. The early records came fast: the 6 Kisses EP in 1999, then two albums, Blackout Analysis in 2000 and White Knuckled Substance in 2001, raw, bleeding-at-the-edges records that already had the whole scream-and-croon attack in place.

Epic noticed. Their first record for the major, Between the Never and the Now, topped the Heatseekers chart, and "Shatterday" made it to 16 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, a whiplash song that lurches from croon to shriek and back again, with guitars that sound like they're tearing the room in half. The lineup around it included guitarists Erik Chapman and Justin Cronk, bassist Michael Vermillion and drummer Joseph Childres, with Zach Davidson and Burke Thomas also in the ranks.

Sisters of the Red Death, the fourth album, followed in 2005, along with the Silhouette Serenade EP. After a run of lineup changes the band called it quits in 2006, then announced a reunion four years later.

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