Underrated: Life of Agony

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Maybe its just the Noo Yawk Boy in me (I famously and proudly suffered a black eye at one of their early gigs at the ripe old age of 13, thank you very much!), but I always thought their particular blend of thrash and hardcore was quite unique, and that first record is good the way the first two Danzig records are good. Anyone like 'em? Anyone heard anything past the second album? Or seen the DVD? (I've been a sucker for music DVDs lately...)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

they are terrible...please keep Danzig's semi-untarnished name out of this.

thanks.

― ddb, Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

semi untarnished? Surely you jest. I love Anzalone as much as the next guy, but, c'mon....

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

danzig's reputation is untarnished in comparison to those of jerry only & doyle.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

They laid down some excellent slow doom/hardcore riffs on the first album. But everything else about the band just reeked of shit, really.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them once (the lineup was Cannibal Corpse/Life of Agony/Anthrax/Misfits... nice) and they were fucking awful--this however may have had something to do with coming on after Cannibal Corpse. How can a wimpy thrash-y band fronted by a preening midget compete with "Here's one of our favorites... FUCKED... WITH A KNIFE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!" Michael Graves or whatever his crappy non-Danzig name was jumped over the soundboard and started beating the soundguy later that evening--I have fond memories of that night.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 6 March 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually liked some of the danzig songs i heard from the last album. and i hadn't really heard any of his stuff since whatever videos i might have seen on MTV and the first album. They were catchy and almost glammy in places. i loved the misfits and even samhain, but i'm probably in the minority when i say that i never really liked the first solo danzig album. i remember being really disappointed when it came out. maybe i would like it more now. um, sorry to derail. i never really listened to life of agony. god help me, i almost bought a gorilla biscuits album the other day. i stopped myself for some reason. it's kinda like when i see old Conflict albums that i used to own. I say to myself. "scott, that money might be better spent elsewhere. you don't really need to go down that well-trod road. you've been there already." (of course, if they were a dollar i would scoop them up and gorge myself.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 March 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Life of Agony? Fucking spare me. Death metal's answer to emo.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott, I'm surprised you don't connect with the first Danzig - I actually find it funny how no one has called out The Blood Group for blatantly stealing from that album (and the second one) yet. That album, at least the first 3/4, gives me the same doper chills as Tarkus.

Gorilla Biscuits? Now that's some crapola. Then again I never really understood the appeal of old 'classic' hxc. Youth of Today, Bold, Chain of Strength....blah. Guess I associate them too strongly with dunderheads of my past.

LOA were pretty emo, agreed. But just listen to the riff in "This Time" - total doom action!!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The first two Danzig records are solid all the way through. After that, he only had about one or two good songs per album, and nothing since Thrall-Demonsweatlive has even had that many.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, that was my scene. Connecticut hardcore. My buddys in high school were in Wide Awake. Actually it wasn't really my scene. Mostly cuz i was a drug addict. I broke my wrist at a Bold show in Brewster, New York cuz i was so drunk. i am a sucker for YOT and their ilk even if i used to make fun of those dudes at the time for being humorless Ianites. Roger, you would have died if you could have seen My bro Dan Bunny in his Eg The Poet guise throwing pizza at the crowd before a Youth of Today show at the VFW Hall in Danbury one wintry night. Those kids were alright though. They all sell insurance now. Except my buddy Rob from Wide Awake. He owns the rad snowboarding shop on Brookfield.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My buddy warren who was in an original incarnation of the bunnybrains was in Violent Children with Ray Cappo. Violent Children rocked!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I met Ray Cappo with a buddy of mine years ago, and we were talking, then my friend asks me to take a picture with him and Ray, totally blowing our cool. Photographs lie, dude!! I felt like a dork.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

Keith is now Mina.

http://www.keithcaputo.com

― StanM, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:40 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mrskeith-604x805-450x600.jpg

― Siegbran, Friday, 15 July 2011 22:31 (fourteen years ago)

Was not expecting that.

― Phill Nilbog (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:23 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

This is the only song I ever heard by them. I listened to it for the first time in about two decades yesterday. It's still pretty decent. I didn't ever think a sex change would come into this saga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JG0N_tpmZA

― Freedom, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 09:41 (ten years ago)

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