![]() Helmet had blown up two years prior, so maybe Stompbox just missed the boat on the whole super staccato rhythm thing. Do the math: A lot of Helmet, a little grunge, the mid-90's. And hell, it sounds pretty much exactly like Helmet at their peak, just with more of a rock 'n' roll flare-thanks in large part to the uniquely gruff vocals. It was heavily promoted at the time-you couldn't go to any damn record store without getting loads of Stompbox sampler tapes/CD's, stickers, etc. ![]() I just can't figure out why this record never caught on at least a little more, either. ![]() Members have since gone on to perform with Milligram, Placer, Chevy Heston, Juliana Hatfield (Huh?), and even. Within a couple of years or so, vocalist Eric Thaler quit the band and the remaining trio allegedly changed their name to Slower. ![]() Formed in 1991, they released a set of recordings called "Travis" a year later (I've seen this referred to as both a demo and an EP, I don't know the deal there), and their sole full-length, "Stress", dropped in 1994 on Columbia Records. For some reason it's pretty damn hard to dig up much information on this defunct Boston band.
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