A late-1990s band that kept playing through lineup shifts and changing sounds.
For their early sound, 'Alive' from the debut captures that moment. 'Machine' gives you a sense of where they went later.
Youngstown's debut 'Alive or Just Breathing' in 1999 had the track 'Alive' that got some radio play, giving them an early foothold. Songs like 'Machine' and 'You Want What You Want' show how their sound shifted across their three albums. They kept recording into the late 2000s without the same attention, but their catalog documents a particular Ohio rock scene from that era.
They formed in Ohio in the late 1990s with Josh Freese on vocals and drums, his brother Jason on bass, and Zacky Vengeance also on drums. After 'Alive or Just Breathing' in 1999, they put out 'Waiting for the Sky to Fall' in 2006 and 'Blackout' in 2009, with a break in the mid-2000s. Early guitarists like Staind Earl and Jim Wirt left around 2001, and later material like 'Machine' had a somewhat different feel.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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