Name: Explode [PA]
Brand: BYO Records
SKU: 90944
Price: 9.53 USD
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Explode [Parental Advisory]

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Album: Explode
#	Song Title	Time
1)	False Hope
2)	Your Failure Is My Revenge
3)	Explode
4)	Don't Look Back
5)	Negative Outlook
6)	Tsunami Suicide
7)	So Sick of You
8)	Remains Unseen
9)	Fed Up
10)	Useless Regrets
11)	Victims
12)	New World Disorder

Performer Notes

The Unseen: Tripp (vocals, bass); Mark Unseen (vocals, drums); Paul Russo (guitar, background vocals); Scott (guitar).
Additional personnel: Pat Melzard (drums).
Recorded at The Outpost, Stoughton, Massachusetts, February 2003.
Personnel: Paul Russo (vocals, guitar); Tripp Underwood (vocals); Pat Melzard (drums).
Recording information: The Outpost, Stoughton, MA (02/2003).
Photographer: Kim Genereux.
Explode, the fourth album by Boston's Unseen, is slightly more mature than their earlier releases. It's still pure street punk: 12 songs in barely 21 minutes, each one of them more strident, pissed-off, and aggressive than the one before; but this album hangs together much better than earlier efforts like Lower Class Crucifixion. The songs are uniformly ultra-tight, which ratchets up the tension far more effectively on one-minute bursts of aggro like "Fed Up" and "Useless Regrets." As always on this kind of hardcore album, the songs end up blurring into one another, which only adds to the album's total impact. Strictly for hardcore purists, of course, but Explode is an aptly-titled missile of an album. ~ Stewart Mason

Professional Reviews

Alternative Press (9/03, p.98) - 4 out of 5 - "...EXPLODE sees the Boston outfit still flying the street-punk flag, spitting venom an slinging guitar riffs like shards from a smashed 40-ounce bottle..."