Joshua Fit For Battle - To Bring Our Own End

Joshua Fit For Battle
To Bring Our Own End
2001

1. Opprotunist
2. Dreams
3. 12 Years of Catholic Skool and This Is What I Learned
4. Blood Money
5. To Bring Our Own End
6. Destroying From the Inside Out Like Cancer
7. Oh, Good, It's One Of Those 'Reality' Shows
8. This Is Getting Me Stronger
9. Fuck the Men in Her Life
10. Sleepwalkers Guide
11. Contents of an American Dream

Screamo is one of the most tainted genres of music in America, thanks in part due to the second wave of artists. I'd like to think that the second wave never came by, and it's honestly for the best. Gone was the spastic intensity and in came the pop-ballads and major label signings. So fucking sad that the genre is now known for that now, and if there's one thing I hate it's the fact that nobody knows what the genre was really about anymore.

Joshua Fit For Battle, to me, is one of the key figures in the East Coast screamo scene, along the likes of pg. 99, Cricle Takes the Square, Hot Cross, Saetia, and Orchid. To Bring Our Own End is twenty-eight minutes of blissful chaos that is as good of a starting place for those not familiar with the genre as Hot Cross' Crynoics and pg. 99's Document #5.