Profile: Scary Kids, Scaring Kids

Its OCTOBER!! whoo hoo. Haha - clearly this year is speeding past us & its almost Summer! I hope y'all having a fantastic weekend thus far, as i am having one before the HARD work for my matric finals start.

Anyway, i've mentioned a few days ago that i would be posting a profile on a band I have recently discovered, and which you probably have already. Sooo this is it. I have adapted it from quite a few sources.

Taking their name from a Cap'n Jazz song,
Phoenix sextet Scary Kids Scaring Kids began
spewing impassioned post-hardcore that
could be both shriekingly spastic and
soothingly melodic in the early 2000s. Known
for a reckless, incendiary live show, the band
originally comprised Tyson Stevens (vocals/
bass), DJ Wilson (guitar), Peter Costa (drums),
and Chad Crawford (guitar). Wilson later
picked up the bass following the addition of
guitarist Steve Kirby and keyboardist Pouyan
Afkary to the band's ranks. While still seniors
in high school, the guys recorded their debut
EP, After Dark, with Bob Hoag (Recover, the
Format), independently releasing it that June
before putting the band on the back burner.
As members locally enrolled in college for the
fall of 2003 -- and Costa returned to his first
dream of working to be a concert pianist -- an
escalating buzz around the band really began
to take off, especially after the popular
website absolutepunk.net posted their EP
online. Next thing bandmembers knew, Scary
Kids was back as their first priority with a
new deal on Immortal Records. The label
reissued After Dark in 2004. Recorded in five
weeks under the production skills of Brian
McTernan (Snapcase, Thrice), The City Sleeps in
Flames appeared in June 2005. In spring
2006, Justin Salter officially took over
drumming duties, replacing Costa in the band.
Summer was spent on both the Warped Tour
and separate dates with Haste the Day. Corey
Apar, Rovi

Discography: Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Album: Scary Kids Scaring Kids Release Date: 2007 09 24
Label: Immortal

1 Prelude :40
2 Degenerates 3:42
3 Holding On 4:21
4 Deep End 4:12
5 Faces 3:25
6 Pistol to My Temple 3:57
7 Star Crossed 3:41
8 Derailed 1:43
9 Breathe 1:19
10 Set Sail 3:25
11 Free Again 3:49
12 Snake Devil 3:30
13 Watch Me Bleed 3:56
14 Goes Without Saying 4:00 15 Blood Runs Forever 3:21
16 Power of Resolution 2:06

Album: City Sleeps in Flames Release Date: 2005 06 28 Label: Immortal
Rating: ****

The Phoenix-based sextet Scary Kids Scaring Kids manage better than most of their aggro- melodic peers to balance gracefully the aggro and the melodic. Don't look for much melody from vocalist Tyson Stevens -- he sings in tune and he's got a strong, clear voice, but he spends as much time yelling as he does actually singing. Sometimes the transition back and forth between the two is highly effective in and of itself, as on the impressive title track and &"My Darkest Hour." And sometimes the yelling comes across as kind of rote and half-hearted, as if he's realizing that he hasn't screamed for a few choruses and it's time to do it again before the mosh kids get restless. Most of the melodic interest comes with the formidable twin guitar attack of Steve Kirby and Chad Crawford and the tasteful contributions of keyboardist Pouyan Afkary. Lyrically, these guys are far from embarrassing -- and in this genre, that's relatively high praise. The songs often have a fairly clear referent (such as the World Trade Center, which is referred to unambiguously in &"City Sleeps in Flames") and are generally pretty low on tired cliché. Overall, this is an impressive full-length debut from a band that is likely to make even more and better noise in the near future. Rick Anderson, Rovi

1 City Sleeps in Flames 4:01
2 Only Medicine 2:51
3 World as We Know It 3:01
4 What's Said Is Done 3:45
5 Just a Taste 3:52
6 My Darkest Hour 3:29
7 Drowning You in Fear 3:12
8 Bright Side of Suffering 4:02 9 Empty Glasses 2:50
10 Faith in the Knife 3:27
11 Breath of Sunshine 5:44

And the band had one Singles Album... Something like that.

Album: After Dark [EP]
Release Date: 2005 02 08
Label: Immortal

1 What's Up Now 4:46
2 Bulletproof 3:35
3 Locked In 4:38
4 Sink and Die 4:03
5 Changing Priorities 3:01
6 My Knife, Your Throat 8:42

I must say a real pleasure to listen to these guys. They great.

Information Sourced: [www.starpulse.com]