The Blood Brothers Scream No Longer
Among today’s spate of inbox bummers comes official confirmation that Seattle’s Blood Brothers, an Idolator fave, think it “best that our futures move forward on separate paths,” i.e. they broke up. 2004’s Crimes stands as the great ’00s crossover hardcore record that never was, wittier than all of their neo-screamo Headbanger’s Ball contemporaries, with plenty of goth gloom to warm the heart of old Gravity Records fans and unpunk touches like Todd Terry-esque keyboard riffs that sounded like they were being banged on harpsichords. Plus they once told me in an interview that they were totally infatuated with Basement Jaxx. Even if they never managed to sound like Basement Jaxx, it just made me love them all the more. How these guys weren’t bigger than dreck like Hawthorne Heights is beyond me.
