After 18 Visions broke up, Jame Shart start Burn Halo because he wanted to play mnstrm hard rock. Burn Halo is a great band, but the other members of 18V started an equally great band, the underrated Never Enough. Picking up where 18V's last album left off, Never Enough play(ed) industrial metal along the lines of Marilyn Manson or whatever. I don't know much about this kind of music or culture, but I am morbidly fascinated by it so I really liked this record!
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Never Enough's first video/single "Devil I Am" combined CHAINREACTIONCORE with cybergoth trappings like gasmasks and rubber pants (not ghey, tho)
Most people hated the final 18 Visions record, but it was my favorite thing they ever did, so you can understand why I was so into this band. For a minute there I thought that cybergoth was going to be the next big trend in moshcore: AFI was huge at the time, Skelanimals was blowing up, etc. Unfortunately it kind of fizzled, but I look back on that period (mid-to-late 2006) fondly.
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In this video, Never Enough/18V drummer Trevor takes you on a tour of his hella gothic apartment in sunny Irvine, California
Unfortunately Never Enough broke up, mb in part because they weren't that good at promoting their band? For example, they never got back to ppl who tried to interview them?? Wish Keith Barney was more friendly. Kinda suxx, feel like this band was rly "doing something cool and new" and could have "capitalized on their CHAINREACTIONCORE cred" if they knew what they were doing :(
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Burn Halo's L.A. glam grunge sounds pretty good but I can't say I'm sold on Never Enough. However, they do answer the age old question of "What kind of music would the sewer ragamuffins in Duran Duran's 'Wild Boys' video make if they were only exposed to Out Of Our Mouth's cover of 'Music'?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrlyB8dEt9c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3VojWF69rk
CallPastorBob
how the hell does he afford that place!? (assumption that everyone in bands are broke and hopeless)
That video is a straightforward Jesus Circa ca. Perverse rip off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s_UjdsMoPk
HOLY GRAVITY KILLS, BATMAN!
That blue & purple jacket is mesmerizing.
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