Searchingforchin

Searchingforchin (or sometimes Searching For Chin) was awesome!!!! And I’ve been wanting to post this band for a while. Only it took me forever to collect what I could find from them. When they started in 1999 they were a lot more metalcore, but pretty quickly progressed into a mathcore outfit. Really great stuff.

I’ve had a lot of trouble tracing some of this stuff around, and same goes for the information. I know they had a few line up changes, but Jim Meloche was always the vocalist and Jesse Martinez was always the main guitarist (both of them would later form Orphan Choir together). The band was formed under the name Provoked.  They released a demo in 1999, and then again another demo in 2000 (but I think this later was just a compilation of already released stuff, or stuff that would be released on their self-titled album).

Then came their self-titled full length out on their local scene’s most important label, Sounds of Revolution. The year after, they put out a split 7″ with The Wake on One Eye Records, the year after that a split with Recension on Sounds of Revolution (which for some reason also included the songs from the previous split) and finally in 2004, a split with The Wolfnote on Jim’s own label, Tragicomedy Records. All the while, they had a series of tour compilations made from these splits and occasionally a few new songs.

I’m not too certain of the compilations this band appeared on, but the ones I did read about didn’t have any exclusive songs. In 2005 they released their final album, ” Context”, also on Tragicomedy. The band had decided to breakup, and would openly announce it with a last tour. Their last release was supposed to be a split with Back When but that never happened.

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Searchingforchin Discography

Ire

And here it finally is. The first post about a Québec band. I’m really pumped about this band, even if I only heard of them recently, thanks to a recommendation from Jav van Huss. This band is a bit hard to classify. I’ve read people call it emo (Yannick Lorraine’s description from a 1996 review of the band, and while maybe back in 1994, 1995 the music could could of been considered part of the emo scene), mathcore (it definitely has math parts in its later material), and plain old metallic hardcore. Personally I left it as hardcore because in entirety, that’s what it is. However it has elements of sludge and extremely atmospheric moments (What Seed, What Root? will give you that immediate reflection, as well as an immediate love for the band).

The band formed in February of 1994, apparently from members of Foreground (a band which I still couldn’t find information on). The band likely recorded some demos, but I haven’t the chance to find any yet. The band’s first release was their self-titled 7″ on Schema Records in 1996. It was soon followed by their split with Seized which was co-released by Spineless Records and Fetus Records. Both of these were compiled into “Adversity Into Triumph” on Ellington Records.

After that they released “I Discern an Overtone of Tragedy in Your Voice” on The Mountain Cooperative. They were getting more mathcore by this time. The band broke up in 1999, and posthumously released their final album “What Seed, What Root?” on CrimethInc Records/Scorched Earth Policy.

I talked to Radwan about the band, and he told me everything the band ever recorded was released. So what you’re getting here is their total discography. No chance of a reunion, despite the new trend.

Ire Discography