DIVERGENT
YOU'RE MAKIN' ME SICK! 2011 EP (DIGITAL RELEASE)
PLASTIC FACT RECORDS PFR-008
DIVERGENT FORMED AFTER IAN LEFT BLOOD STAINED REALITY IN THE FALL OF 2009. DIVERGENT CONSISTED OF IAN ON GUITAR WITH JAROD FROM DREADED SOLUTION ON DRUMS, AND DALE HOLLAND OF MAN VS MAN AND THE LEGENDARY DEATH CRISIS ON BASS. DALE LATER WENT ON TO FORM THE DOOM METAL PROJECT BLEAK SKIES AND CURRENTLY PLAYS IN MEAGER, AND IS HONING HIS SKILLS AS A FAIRLY ACCOMPLISHED AUDIO ENGINEER. DIVERGENT PLAYED A DARK, FAST, ANGRY BLEND OF RAW HARDCORE PUNK WITH D-BEAT UNDERTONES, REFLECTING A WARPED, ISOLATED, MENTALLY UNSTABLE OUTLOOK ON THE WORLD. DALE'S TRIPLET FINGER PLUCKING ON BASS COMPLIMENTED THE STARK GUITAR RIFFS, CREATING A FULL, COMPLEX SOUND, ACCENTED BY PESSIMISTIC, BLEAKLY PSYCHEDELIC LYRICS, CRITICAL OF SOCIAL TENDENCIES AND POLITICAL IDEALS. DALE AND IAN BOTH SHARED IN SONGWRITING DUTIES, LYRICALLY, MUSICALLY AND VOCALLY, ALLOWING FOR A MORE UNIQUE DYNAMIC ON SOME TRACKS, ALTHOUGH OTHER TRACKS RETAINED A MORE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, SIMPLISTIC STRUCTURE. DIVERGENT RECORDED A FEW DEMOS ON A 4 TRACK, THEN RECORDED IN A MORE PROFESSIONAL SETTING ON TWO OCCASIONS, WITH BOTH SESSIONS RECORDED AND MIXED BY ROB LOGIC. DIVERGENT ONLY LASTED FROM 2009 UNTIL 2011, AND ONLY RELEASED TWO EPS FOR FREE ONLINE, (PLUS ONE TRACK. "ABSCESS AND ATROPHY," ON THE CD COMPILATION "PLASTIC FACT EATERS VOLUME 2", AND ANOTHER TRACK, "CRADLE OF HUMANITY," ON THE 2013 ANTIFASCISTA ANTI-RACIST ACTION CD COMPILATION -WHICH ALSO FEATURIED BANDS SUCH AS APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT, ADELIT@S, OI POLLOI, TOM MORELLO AND MORE- BOTH TRACKS FROM THIS EP).
THIS DIVERGENT'S FIRST EP, FROM 2011:
"YER MAKIN' ME SICK!"
TRACKLIST:
1. NOTHING MEANS ANYTHING MEANS EVERYTHING
2. FOR THEIR CAUSE
3. YOU'RE MAKIN' ME SICK!
4. NEGATIVE SPACE
5. ABSCESS AND ATROPHY
6. CRADLE OF HUMANITY
7. FALLING DOWN
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